Culture news Breakout US inauguration poet Amanda Gorman releases New Year's poem The 23-year-old first caught public attention with her impassioned reading of 'The Hill We Climb' at President Joe Biden's inauguration in January. Her latest set of verses touches on the hope and fear many of us have felt in 2021. 29/12/2021
See 'Barbarism' and war poetry: Inside Anselm Kiefer's Paris installations A new exhibition created by the German painter and sculptor at the Grand Palais Éphémère in Paris, depicts the war poems of Paul Celan, through immersive, giant installations. 16/12/2021
Living How can poetry help us wake up to the climate crisis? Poetry cannot fix the climate crisis - people can, and the more our empathies and imaginations are stirred the better. 07/10/2021
Italy Italy's poet Dante Alighieri given symbolic re-trial 700 years on The author of the Divine Comedy left Florence in 1302 never to return. 24/05/2021
Living ‘My poems are not nice,’ Ella Duffy on the sinister side of nature Award-winning young poet Ella Duffy talks about the brutality of nature and her new work on the UK's rarest flower. 29/08/2020
France French president pens birthday poem to British teen “I know a man who’ll read your verse… The President of France.” 02/11/2017
Russia Lauded Russian poet Yevtushenko buried in Moscow Russian Poet Yevtushenko laid to rest in Moscow 11/04/2017
Russia Poet Yevtushenko dies Tributes are pouring in for the Russian poet who strove to liberate artistic expression from the shackles Soviet politics 01/04/2017
United Kingdom Haggis, neeps and tatties: Burns Night explained Scots celebrate Robert Burns’ birthday every year on January 25. 25/01/2017
Sweden Bob Dylan is the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Musician Bob Dylan wins the Prize "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition." 13/10/2016
Spain Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca was executed during civil war, papers reveal Federico Garcia Lorca, the Spanish playwright and poet who was killed shortly after the start of Spain’s civil war, was executed by the authorities 23/04/2015
Hungary An unusual movie tribute to Hungarian poetry The famous scene with Al Pacino in Any Given Sunday was transformed into a rhyme. A poem which was presented by Judi Dench in English 37 years 11/04/2015
Sweden Sweden mourns death of prize-winning poet Tomas Transtromer Sweden is mourning the death of one of its most famous literary figures, the Nobel Prize-winning poet Tomas Transtromer. Members of the Nobel academy 27/03/2015
Culture news Kate Tempest: A Cross Genre Talent http://katetempest.co.uk/about Rapper, poet, playwright – south London’s Kate Tempest is being hailed as one of Britain’s brightest and most 25/03/2015
France 1914: the war-time death of French writer Charles Péguy, my great grandfather A hundred years ago, at the beginning of World War I, French writer Charles Péguy was shot dead by a German bullet. He left behind a pregnant wife 02/09/2014
USA American author and poet Maya Angelou dies at age 86 U.S. author and poet Maya Angelou has died at age 86 in North Carolina, local media reported on Wednesday, citing her agent and a local 28/05/2014
