Is it better, for the health of a society, to pardon or punish the perpetrators?” Caught “between the drive to forget and the ...

For as long as I can remember, I’ve always loved books and reading—especially poetry. It always somehow felt to me that, ...

Depending on how you look at things and your level of interest, as one delves into the various aspects of history you find that not every piece of it is overly revelatory. Oftentimes, the minutiae of ...

Callum Minford reflects on this year's Nottingham Poetry Festival and what it reveals to us about Nottingham's writing scene.

Shahid Alam and I go back a long way, though we had both half-forgotten it until recently. He was two years senior to me at ...

The official civic celebration on Friday, August 1st marks the ceremonial start of Ilkley’s Yorkshire Day weekend. The centrepiece is the grand procession of around 170 mayors, town criers, and ...

That is the beginning of a poem I wrote about my mom’s mother. Grandma always lived on a farm, and as I grew up, I was so thrilled to be able to go spend a week with her every summer. I would like to ...

Two Philadelphia artists – a photographer and a performance poet – combine their shared passion for observing and documenting everyday life in the city.

I remember the heat. A dry, suffocating torrent. The blazing, burning sun baking the tarmac. No clouds, no trees, just a furnace of hate. I feel the hate. I remember the heat. I remember the dust ...

Of course, it’s not just famous people who have discovered Balka’s work. The poems in I Hope You Remember have a universality that appeals to those who may otherwise avoid poetry.

The poems in I Hope You Remember have a universality that appeals to those who may otherwise avoid poetry. During her recent sold-out appearance for Wordfest, Balka was approached by several women who ...