The 2025 festival programme offers a chance to discover new talents while bringing experienced poets to Winchester.

Madeline Miller spent over a decade writing The Song of Achilles – a fantasy romance retelling of Homer’s epic poem The Iliad ...

Crawford explores Eliot’s personal struggles and secret love affairsNewly revealed letters shed light on Eliot’s hidden ...

My walk began at Little Gidding in the old county of Huntingdonshire. Due to the predicted heat, I decided to start early and ...

I recently bought a history of 19th-century France from a reputable second-hand books site, where its condition was described ...

Samuel Johnson quipped that even the admirers of John Milton’s epic never wished it “longer than it is.” But “Paradise Lost” ...

A once-forgotten grape re-emerges in the Loire Volcanique. Chris Howard reports from St-Pourçain.

In this re-launch, the score, direction and choreography are almost identical to what we saw back in 1985. And the ...

History is now and England. From this profoundly moving passage of T.S. Eliot emerged the name of a conference in the heart ...

Birdsong stripped from the air’s stems.Down by the river the old house is scattered.You stand and say their namesbut there’s ...

Yet many welfare states have been built the world over without an ideology of national security following in their wake.

The Movie Stays the Same, Yet the Interpretation Is Often Very Different”: David Secter on the 60 Year Legacy of Winter Kept Us Warm “Winter kept us warm,” reads an early ...