Barnaby Martin of Listening In looks at the origin of the incredibly poignant scene from Four Weddings and a Funeral in which a young John Hanna recites the heartbreaking W.H. Auden poem “Stop ...

Of American poets born after the Civil War, Pound and Eliot have the strongest claim on long attention, though both in recent ...

OpEd: Writer Eric Reece asked himself the same question he asked during the last Trump administration: how can despair and frustration get converted into something useful for the land and the people ...

An appreciation of South African playwright Athol Fugard, whose plays that bore witness to the cruelty of apartheid, ...

Fifty years on from the death of one of the 20th century's greatest poets, WH Auden, Michael Symmons Roberts sets out to consider three different aspects of his work.

W.H. Auden, meditating on the role of the artist in a poem by W.B. Yeats, concluded that poetry “makes nothing happen.” While generally true, the precept doesn’t hold in the case of ...