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Local artists have organized an exhibition of their paintings to raise funds for the Bruce Trail Conservancy, Regina Haggo writes.

Katherine Rundell’s biography offers something new: she matches the poet’s energy with her own.

John Donne has always been my favorite metaphysical poet.. Full marks to the NY Times for publishing the following--- What John Donne Knew About Death Can

The life of the poet, soldier, scholar and clergyman John Donne revolved around sex, death and God, according to Rundell.

He thought humans a disaster, the most spectacular disaster there has ever been.

This is a ‘thrilling reassessment of Donne’s oddly hinged career’

Rundell captures John Donne’s unique vision in all its power, eloquence and strangeness

Katherine Rundell argues that John Donne wrote the most lavishly sexed poetry. UK-based author uncovers his affair and marriage to 16-year-old Anne More

John Donne wrote about desire like nobody else, before or since – he's the poet our confused society needs

Life Sketch of John Donne Author: John Donne Anti-Catholicism in England John Donne was born to a wealthy Catholic family on June 19, 1572, at the time in world history when anti-Catholicism was gaining influence in England. Johns father, John Donne, Sr., was a well-to-do ironworker. His mother was a relative of Sir Thomas More, and her father was John Heywood, the playwright. The future poet was only four years old when his father died in 1576, and his mother struggled to raise John and his ...