Culture news Actors and campaigners join forces in film highlighting Gaza’s youth Annie Lennox, Dame Vanessa Redgrave, Guy Pearce and Ambika Mod are among the names who have lent their voices to a new recital of Michael Rosen's 2014 poem. 15/09/2025
Art George the Poet teams up with young Londoners to reimagine iconic art Supported by George the Poet, a new project at London's FRAMELESS reimagines classic artworks through the voices and experiences of a new generation. 23/07/2025
Culture news Euronews Culture Book Club: Four picks for April Music, matriarchs, and modernism are the themes of this month's book recommendations. This April, we're looking at the latest work from a one of Japan's most exciting writers, and one of the best musical memoirs of recent years. 04/04/2025
Culture news World Poetry Day: After #MeToo, feminist poetry is flourishing Poetry and feminism have always been intertwined but in recent years, many new feminist and queer voices have emerged and found space to express themselves. For World Poetry Day, we take a look at this moment of poetic liberation. 21/03/2025
Culture news World Poetry Day: Social media injects a new lease of life into poetry From social media to AI, new technologies have changed the way that we produce and consume poetry. For World Poetry Day, we take a deep dive into the trends that brought a renewed popularity to this genre. 21/03/2025
Culture news Five English football teams commission official poems Five English football teams are commissioning official poems for their clubs as part of a scheme to encourage youth literacy. 26/02/2025
Culture news Bob Dylan's 'Mr Tambourine Man' drafts sell for nearly €500,000 Two sheets of typewritten lyrics were the lead items in a record-breaking auction of Bob Dylan memorabilia in Nashville. 20/01/2025
Culture news Love reading? Euronews Culture's guide to the books of 2025 Whether you want to start or can't stop reading there's sure to be a title that tickles your fancy in our carefully curated guide to books due out in 2025. 07/01/2025
Art Meet the Polish punk rocker fighting for a culture of remembrance Trupa Trupa are much more popular abroad than in Poland itself. Singer Grzegorz Kwiatkowski believes it's because of the themes they deal with in their music, history's darkest chapters, especially the Holocaust. Euronews Culture caught up with Grzegorz and the band in Gdańsk. 11/12/2024
Cinema What is the unsettling poem in the '28 Years Later' trailer? Ahead of the June 2025 release of the long-awaited third part in the '28 Days Later' film series, a detail in the trailer's soundtrack has intrigued film (and literature) lovers. 11/12/2024
Culture news South African dissident writer Breyten Breytenbach dies aged 85 Breytenbach was a poet, novelist, painter and activist whose work touched on and influenced literature and the arts both domestically and abroad. 25/11/2024
Culture news Bard or bot? Study shows readers prefer AI to human poetry A study by the University of Pittsburgh reveals that AI-generated poetry has been rated higher than poems written by humans. 19/11/2024
Culture news Celebrated Japanese poet Shuntaro Tanikawa dies aged 92 Tanikawa diverged from haiku and other traditions, and explored the poetic, not only in the repetitive music of the spoken word but also the magic hidden in little things. 19/11/2024
Culture news Have archaeologists uncovered the remains of a famed French poet? Archaeological excavations at Notre-Dame de Paris have uncovered a burial site that could be that of the French poet Joachim du Bellay (1522 - 1560), whose grave has been sought since the 18th century. But doubts remain... 18/09/2024
Culture news Pope Francis: Literature is essential to counter 'violent fake news' In a letter recently translated in eight languages, Pope Francis argues that literature should not be written off as "a minor art" due to its capacity to stimulate empathy and counter “the obsession with screens and with toxic, superficial and violent fake news.” 06/08/2024
Economy Portugal celebrates mythical beasts and heroes with Ulysses coin The Bank of Portugal pays tribute to the mythical founder of Lisbon with a €5 collector coin. 15/07/2024