Poetry

Our lives are bound up with objects. Museums are evidence of our deep preoccupation with the things that surround us, whether natural or the product...

An ambitious programme, celebrating the birth of poet and playwright Christopher Marlowe 450 years ago, will begin later this month with a rare...

American Civil War poetry that sheds light on a neglected chapter of the era’s literary history has been recovered and made freely available online...

Thresholds – a unique residency project that matched ten of the UK’s best poets with ten of Cambridge University’s museums and collections - reaches...

Fancy listening to children's authors like Lauren Child talk about their writing or taking part in a circus skills workshop or doing a bit of...

The Benjamin Zephaniah Poetry Competition, set up last year to encourage new work propelling social change, is now open to a wider range of aspiring...

An evening at Lucy Cavendish College next Monday will bring together speakers and musicians from Cambridge and beyond to look at the ways in which...

Almost 100 years after the outbreak of World War I, public opinion about war in many of the countries that fought appears to have shifted completely...