The theme of this year’s contest is ‘Time’ – a subject tackled by everyone from Emily Dickinson to Simon Armitage ...

Distinguished educator and poetry advocate Bernice Cullinan reminds us that “poetry is a shorthand for beauty; its words can cause us to tremble, to shout for joy, to weep, to dance, to shudder or to ...

The influential French-British composer Jean-Loup Pinson, who brought the notion of how a story is told in music into new ...