STARS of Still Game were among the mourners at the funeral of James Martin, a Musselburgh resident for more than 30 years.

Many important ancient Greek women—poets, philosophers, and leaders— defied norms and shaped history for generations.

The shadows grow darker still as master storytellers Christopher Cantwell (Thanos, Cruel Universe) and Tyler Crook (Harrow County, Epitaphs from the Abyss) remind Alcatraz's most notorious ...

Participate in a one-of-a-kind walking tour in Kolkata where you really see the history and culture of the place. Every street, wall of this city have a story, stories on heritage, architecture and ...

Edward’s victories – the epitaph on his tomb called him ‘the undefeated leopard ... But the ‘Song of the Husbandman’, a poem that ventriloquises the peasant discontent caused by Edward I’s new taxes, ...

He blamed his unfinished poem on ‘a person on business from Porlock’. Who was this arch-interrupter? Joanna Kavenna goes looking for the person from Porlock.

February is National Haiku Writing Month. The website nahaiwrimo.com urges us to write one haiku a day for the month of February. "Why February? Because it’s the shortest month, for the world’s ...

Instead of defaulting to the notifications on my phone, poetry has inspired me to begin the day in a different way. By Charley Locke Most mornings, as soon as I wake up, I feel the pull of my phone.

He didn’t read book reviews—or so he claimed—and he didn’t write them, preferring instead to let his poems find their natural audience, which turned out to be a wide one. He mocked ...

Have you been paying attention to current events recently? See how many of these 10 questions you can get right. Compiled by Jeremy Engle How do these journalists craft arguments to compel ...