Poetry in the 21st century is both ubiquitous and oddly peripheral. Verses are displayed on subway walls, recited on momentous occasions, and served up in giant fonts on social media, but rarely ...

Futurist Ray Kurzweil predicts that advances in AI, biotechnology, and medicine could allow humans to achieve immortality by 2030. Kurzweil's concept of 'escape velocity' suggests medical ...

Beloved Romantic poet William Wordsworth was the first "influencer" to champion the Lake District and call for its conservation, a new exhibition claims. Wordsworth penned his Guide to the Lakes ...

When now-poet laureate Simon Armitage retired from the Probation Service, his dad was “a bit miffed”. “I went into probation because my dad was a probation officer,” Armitage tells Big Issue. “He was ...