Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to marriage, The Skunk, combines exile and erotica, moving from an American wilderness image ...

Faiz Ahmad Faiz is a poet of this family, the family of which Persian poet Nazeeri Nishapuri said, “The one who is not killed ...

Joseph Brodsky, the legendary Russian poet, passed away 29 years ago in New York City, and while this is not a milestone anniversary, it prompts refl ...

Brodsky remains an enigma, a figure who resisted easy categorization. He was a liberal and an imperialist, a dreamer and a ...

Brodsky remains an enigma, a figure who resisted easy categorization. He was a liberal and an imperialist, a dreamer and a ...

Muhammad Yusuf, Features Writer Firetti Contemporary @ Alserkal Avenue is presenting The Unseen Presence, a collective ...

At the Jaipur Literature Festival, 2025, conversations revolved around the urgent question: in the time of climate change and ...

McCrae’s work obsessively retreads paths through Heaven, history, and eternal torment. What can we learn from his relentless ...

In the years she spent in India, Fahmida Riaz wrote a significant but underappreciated body of poems. When read together, ...

Vālmīki’s epic poem “The Rāmāyaṇa” is a great work of literature and a treasure of Indian culture — but its political and religious appropriation has entrenched divisions and exclusion in Indian ...

The brainchild of the poet Stephen Spender, and translator Michael Scammell, the magazine’s very first issue included a never-before-published poem, written while serving a sentence in a labour camp, ...

Czesław Miłosz lost his homeland to a Stalinist regime. What have we Americans valued in our own cultural past that might now ...