Possibly he cohabited with Miss Bloggs, but don’t mention it in front of his wife, let the sleeping dogs lie.” Gordon Jarvie’s ‘Dictionary of Idioms’ contains that example of a warning that has been ...

The Varsity Arts editors pick Rupert Brooke's poem off the bookshelf, and think about what it means to Cambridge students of ...

Curious about why Thor uses his iconic Shakespearean speech pattern? Marvel has provided a long-awaited answer to one of its ...

Sitting in a secluded, leafy courtyard on a warm afternoon is a pleasant way to spend an hour, more so sipping on a ...

A south London neighbourhood with a village-like charm and beloved historic lido has been named as one of the most sought after neighbourhoods ...

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “I have slept in many places, for years on mattresses that entered,” by Diane Seuss, and his own poem “This Is a Test of the Federal Emergency ...

Their poems are part of world history and culture. Poets should and must document the destruction and horrors of war. But can poetry ameliorate a war or hasten a peaceful resolution? Perhaps ...

Eminent Sindhi poet Allah Bux aka Dr Akash Ansari died on Saturday. He was 69. Police have opened a probe to dig out the facts behind his death apparently caused by a fire in his room. The poet ...

We may never know if St. Valentine, a martyr beheaded for officiating the forbidden weddings of persecuted Christians, was keen on chocolate and flowers.

To commemorate King Richard II’s engagement on that day in 1381, Geoffrey Chaucer wrote a love poem. “He had Italian friends who told him that it was the feast of St. Valentine, the first ...

And if you ask me how, I do not know. I only feel it, and I’m torn in two. Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to marriage, The Skunk, combines exile and erotica, moving from an American wilderness ...