Tishani Doshi's Forward-shortlisted collection A God at the Door spans time and space, drawing on...

Tony Hoagland's zany poems poke and provoke at the same time as they entertain and delight. He is...

Staying Alive, Being Alive and Being Human have introduced many thousands of new readers to conte...

The Sky Around My Father charts the estrangement between a daughter and her charismatic but often...

In this innovative series of public lectures at Newcastle University, leading contemporary poets ...

Sensual, salacious and above all scandalous, the erotic verse of the Roman poet Catullus has deli...

Niall Campbell grew up on South Uist in Scotland's Outer Hebrides, and his first collection, Moon...

Reissue with new audio CD of Frances Horovitz's Collected Poems (1985), one of the landmark volum...

Caitríona O'Reilly's first collection The Nowhere Birds won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature...

Close the Coalhouse Door is a living pageant of the North-East's mining communities, and also a k...

The northern word for hometown, 'toon', flickers in meaning between 'tune' and 'cartoon'. In Bill...

'He was indeed the nearest anybody ever got to Charlie Chaplin in print...the sentences skid and ...