Fifty years after his death, Hughes’ extraordinary lyricism resonates with power to people Pulitzer Prize winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa ... wasn’t hated that Plato feared it, writes the ...

Have you ever experienced the thrill of listening to a specific type of music that calms you down and refreshes your mind? This kind of music ...

A hymn to mercy and love, “Love Calls Us to the Things of This World” springs to my lips when my heart is quiet. I teach it ...

Albert Durrant Watson was a physician, a poet, and a hymn writer. Starting in 1918, he took on a new role: host of séances.

By Alison Habens In the beginning, there was just one, unnamed, muse. The blind bard Homer (a poet born around 850BC) invoked ...

Until his dog Marvin eats his poems, he focuses on the beauty in the tangible: the brand of a matchbox, people’s daily conversations, and more. When Plato banned poetry in his utopian republic, he ...

Plato and Socrates taught passionately that most beliefs were ... not ruling the way good guardians are supposed to. The poet ...

Technology is something that both enhances and encumbers our lives. This contrast leaves us feeling deeply ambivalent and ...

Set up by the singer/songwriter/author Eleni Elefterias at Stanmore, before moving to Dulwich Hill, the bookshop contained ...