WHEN Ian McMillan was tasked with celebrating 20 great Yorkshire folk in verse, the biggest challenge was who to leave out.

An anthology of her teenage poetry, published for the first time, shows ambition, even if the verse isn’t perfect.

The Day One executive orders included—and depended on—the President’s formal, executive declarations of not one, not two, but ...

Periods including “fish emerge from the ice” in mid-February and “rainbows hide” in late November offer a framework for ...

If a poem ends with the poet ... the “sakura”, and a number of haiku celebrate the flower , one of the best known by Basho is “Kannon’s tiled temple/ roof floats far away on clouds ...

Kiefer’s painting Brünhilde (1981) is included in the Ashmolean’s exhibition Photo: Mark Woods; courtesy of the Hall Art ...

Luc Godard’s singular sci-fi noir Alphaville first came out, writer Richard Roud found it so striking he saw it three times. On its 60th anniversary, we look back at Roud’s analysis of it in our ...

The expression comes from the famous scene in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” in which the eponymous seafarer shoots and kills an albatross—a sign of good luck or providence ...

Just six months on from their double fragrance release, Glossier has introduced an unexpected new member to the family this northern hemisphere spring (our autumn) — a floral named Fleur.