New back-to-basics GCSE specifications include more poetry in English literature, a greater focus on spelling and punctuation in language courses and a requirement to learn formulae "off by heart" in ...

AN excursion through eight or ten centuries of verse is an undertaking like the circumnavigation of the globe; the space to be traversed is so great that it takes a life-time to make the way familiar.

A poet on the Isle of Man says her poems in Manx "are part of my identity and are there for others who want to take the language up". Former teacher Annie Kissack, who was appointed the fifth Manx ...

*Originally published on March 15, 2021. It was cold. It was freezing. The old man was — probably — sneezing. But we don't know about the final detail. Sneezes are not specified. Or about the old man ...

Pakistani poetess Barrister Mishal Sahir’s collection of English poems, “Atma: Safar-e-Zaat”, has been translated into the Punjabi language (Gurmukhi) under the title “Ae Dard Ve Kehra Dard Ae” by ...

Nagpur: “Ushered the dark night when sunrise was rife; Oh! Alight again the flambeaus of life!” goes legendary Marathi poet Suresh Bhat’s poem ‘Ushakkal Hota Hota Kalratra Jhali’ in English. Now, one ...

Students at Agawam High School had an inspiring day on Dec. 4 when the creative skills of students in English and art classes ...

If you want to reach Jayanta Mahapatra, it is enough to mark the epistle to ‘Jayanta Mahapatra, Cuttack’ for it to find him. You don’t need any better testimony to the reputation this grand old man of ...

``Gasa'' (Kasa), a form of poetry popular during the Joseon Kingdom (1392-1910), has long been consigned to oblivion for modern Koreans who learn it only in their high school days. But the traditional ...

The poems, termed didactic – Lovada Sangarava and Subhasitaya – have been translated as Towards Universal Well-being and Well Spoken respectively, and published as a second edition by the Buddhist ...