Read the five works contending for $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts and a Banff Centre writing residency. The ...

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The shortlist for New Irish Writing’s 2025 awards has been revealed. This year’s winners – one for best short story, one for best poetry – will be chosen by novelist Eoin McNamee and the poet Enda ...

To name just a few, there are poems about hugging a dog and climbing a tree, getting dressed and playing tag. Each one of the thirty poems is easy to remember, rhythmic and action-filled, and each ...

Our critic A.O. Scott forages the world’s most poetic fruit. Isabella Cotier By A.O. Scott A.O. Scott, a critic at large for the Book Review, recorded the poetry readings that appear in this piece.

Nakusp-based writer Dixie Nesbitt has published her first book – a collection of poems and short stories, telling the tales of everyday people, places, and life experiences. “They reveal the humorous ...

Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy wants to get more children reading poems and believes a generation reared on Twitter, text messages and Facebook updates is actually more in tune with poetry than many ...

The problem is in the reading. Major McRae didn’t write it line by line, he wrote it in meaningful sentences. Look at the ...

How to Get More Out of Reading by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst ...