IT IS usually dangerous for anyone whose gift is one art to attempt to follow another. The pitfalls of following poetry when your gift is prose are obvious enough to ...

There are no words, at times, to describe what Kevin Barry does with words. In this latest novel, the Irish writer has almost invented a new genre, a fascinating hybrid of poetry, prose and drama. It ...

Carson is one of the most famous poets writing in English; her many rabid fans await her new books with eager anticipation. A classicist by training, Carson has found, over a career spanning three ...

Former Wales Book of the Year winner Robert Minhinnick writes about his first novel and how a poet goes about turning his attention to prose Former Wales Book of the Year winner Robert Minhinnick ...

Thomas Russell Whitaker, the Fredrick W. Hilles Professor of English & Theater Studies, Emeritus, scholar of modern poetry and drama, died at Middlesex Hospital in Connecticut on Dec. 24. He was 95 ...

Two new verse plays have been published this month. This is something of an event in itself-particularly since one of them is by the most influential poet writing in English-but the really remarkable ...