Ian Stewart’s great achievement in his vivid new book The Celts is to examine these rifts and complexities with imagination ...

John Newton, who wrote the poem behind the song Amazing Grace ... associated with the “cowpea” after the Civil War. The Celts of Central and Western Europe likely first domesticated wild ...

Historians may no longer talk of a single Celtic culture, but in The Celts: A Modern History Ian Stewart crafts ... you could imagine a narrative in which poetry, novels, and aesthetics play a bigger ...

that only Celts can absorb and practise its lessons. Of the novelists he has read recently he was most impressed by Alasdair Gray – a Scot.) At school Burgess was already hard at work on music and ...

In four new collections, a frank look at disability, a celebration of domestic life (and dogs), a gathering of hushed moments ...

He’s a perceptive reader, and he has a knack for writing about poems in ways that lend shape and even excitement to the act of reading and thinking about them. He’s also comfortable ignoring some of ...

I am writing to you with a special poem that I have composed to commemorate the 15-year anniversary of the passing of Ernie Harwell, beloved voice of the Detroit Tigers. (Editor's note ...

Celts drank Greek wine according to a recent study of ceramic containers which have been excavated from a hillfort site in Burgundy.

Libraries, schools and cultural organizations around Massachusetts and the country celebrate April as National Poetry Month.