The first book in Arabic about the life and poetry of the great Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib, titled Ghalib: A’zam Shu’ara’il-Hind ...

Pakistan’s largest city, Karachi, is home to more than 20 million people and has been in the news many times due to climate-related issues such as heat waves, urban flooding and bad air quality. On ...

Our Poetry Book of the Month reviews include two ... from her upbringing in rural Michigan through to the New York punk scene of the late 1970s, and then back to small-town America, where she ...

Poetry is what we turn to when all else has ceased ... The Story of Eve: Selected Poems, Zehra Nigah, translated from the Urdu by Rakhshanda Jalil, Speaking Tiger Books.

New Irish Writing: Poetry by Bronagh Mallon New Irish Writing: All the Birch Trees Were Waving by Pádhraic Quinn Simon Harris - The Irish people have spoken, now we need to figure out what they said ...

The winner of the 2017 PEN Pinter Prize on how poets have responded to the horrors of civil war – and why the peace process is far from over. By Michael Longley Editor’s note: this piece was ...

The annual ceremony of the Utakai Hajime, or the Imperial New Year’s Poetry Reading, took place in the Matsu-no-Ma room of the Imperial Palace in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, on Wednesday morning. The Yomiuri ...

Princess Aiko on Wednesday attended the utakai hajime New Year's poetry reading ceremony at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo for the first time. Poems written by imperial family members and guests ...