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What do you get if you add poems that are “Shel Silverstein meets Rumi for kids” with pictures of yetis and primordial slime?
I am happy Ruth is getting the credit she most certainly deserves. There are so many people still around that loved her, and ...
Need a bit of inspiration before sending in your entry to the CBC Poetry Prize? The 3-member jury for this year's prize ...
Sophie Butler, 40, lost her mam, Rita Oxman, to bowel cancer in 2021 and has since written a book of poems in her honour ...
Malamat’ --- Aftab Ahmad Shah’s poetic divan2. ‘Hamzad’ ------ Tauqir Ahmad Faiq’s verse collection Poets (late) Aftab ...
My grandfather — who used to make me practice sitting still — has always been better at living in the present moment than I ...
Macdonald's collection Northerny explores the messiness, beauty and pain of growing up in the North. Now in its third year, ...
A recent book carnival in the city celebrated literature and self-expression, drawing book enthusiasts, poets, and performers ...
The countdown is on to Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life in Sunderland, with just two weeks to go until the big day a local ...
They clicked. Burgess is an award-winning author and poetry teacher and Salati is a Caledecott Medalist. They now have an illustrated book of poetry called Words with Wings and Magic Things.
In her arresting debut, How I Bend Into More (Palimpsest Press, 135 pages, $22), Tea Gerbeza uses visual and lyric techniques in a long poem that, while it centres her experience with scoliosis and ...
Efforts to ban books in schools and remove them from libraries usually happen at the local level. Trump has made them a focus ...