It’s midsummer in London and it’s raining. For once, however, everyone seems very pleased about the matter. Londoners are used to summer showers but they’d never seen anything like this as a ...
Ross Sutherland was born in Edinburgh in 1979. His one-man show, The Three Stigmata of Pacman, is on tour in 2011. Ross is also a member of the poetry collective Aisle16 with whom he runs Homework, an ...
London by William Blake was published in 1794. It tells the story of a speaker walking through the city of London and noticing suffering all around them. London was published in Blake's poetry ...
Anyone who has lived in a city knows that cities are vile: nasty, crime-ridden, stinking of urine, plagued with rats, cauldrons of disease. And who has known cities also knows that cities are the home ...
Hundreds of thousands of customers will be able to see a new poem by comedian, train buff and poet John Hegley, specially written to celebrate the 150th anniversary of London Underground, in train ...
How a Brooklyn teenager's poem gained attention in London and then went. — -- A poem with a surprisingly inspirational message made an impact on one London bar patron, who then helped it go viral ...
Twitter user Abbie, 14, wrote her poem in the wake of the attacks – and it’s racked up hundreds of shares and more than 1,000 likes, as well as messages of thanks.
America is not best known for its Catholic poets, but Louise Imogen Guiney (1861-1920) should not be as forgotten as she is. Scrabbling for jobs as a young woman in Boston, she worked as an editor and ...