We millennials like our poetry typed out in neat fonts on rustic pastel backgrounds, centred in a tiny square on a small screen. We read short, simple, and relatable poems which may strike a chord ...

Poetry is a beautiful art, which involves a lot of creativity just like other genres of art, but it seems it struggles to find its feat, compared to other genres of art. Poets in Nigeria struggle to ...

What does the future hold for poetry in East Africa? Has time for juicy pieces like Okot P’Bitek’s Song of Lawino gone? Can the glory be reclaimed? Albeit these could be questions many poetry lovers ...

What happens to poetry in the Digital Age? In one of the first academic works in the field, a Swedish researcher has studied how the ability of the computer to combine words, images, movement and ...

Ask Vallo Riberto and Kazmier Maslanka to explain what separates “mathematical visual poetry” from other text-based art movements and you’ll get any number of answers. Words like “algebraic” and ...

Research has shown that in the early months of the COVID pandemic people in the UK both reported reading more and used reading to cope with the anxieties brought on by sudden changes to their ...

Birth, most people would agree, is a fairly important event. And poetry, most people would agree, tends to focus on subjects of intense emotional significance. So one would think the poetry of early ...

LAHORE: Marsiya, a genre of Urdu poetry can trace its origins to the subcontinent, said an expert on Urdu language, literature, and poet Dr Arfa Zehra. She expressed these views during a session ...

Poetry is a beautiful art, which involves a lot of creativity just like other genres of art, but it seems it struggles to find its feat, compared to other genres of art. How poetry can be at par with ...