A new wave of authors is mining the territory between brilliance and ugliness to produce some of the most adventurous and ...

Poet, memoirist and scholar Ingrid Horrocks has won the $65,000 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize at the 2026 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards for her fiction debut, All Her Lives, a story collection that ...

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The simplest and most defensible claim is that near-death experiences (NDEs) are much more common than many of us realize: ...

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Housing the world’s largest public collection of modern poetry, we are the National Poetry Library; free to join across the UK, and London’s only space dedicated to poetry study. Founded by the Arts ...

Raina, an academic-turned-poet with the heart of a journalist and the soul of a philosopher, offers a work that is as much a moral compass as it is a literary achievement. Cover page of book- Badri ...

Josie Glausiusz is a freelance science journalist who has written about the healing power of poetry for The Washington Post. With family at bedside,/ and the beau’s guitar/ filling the room,/ the leaf ...

Judges praised the ‘emotional stakes’ of Partridge Boswell’s poem The Gathering, which took the £5,000 top prize A poem about language, love, and processing distressing world events has won this ...