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In March this year Teddy Jamieson visited Professor John Burnside in his office at St Andrews University. Just two months before he passed.

Ocean Vuong is an American writer whose work often explores war, trauma, queerness, and immigrant experience. When Vuong was two years old, he and his family emigrated from Vietnam to Hartford, Connecticut, U.S., after spending more than a year in a refugee camp in the Philippines. Upon arriving in

Roger Robinson is a writer who has performed worldwide. He is the winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize 2019, RSL Ondaatje Prize 2020 and an RSL Fellow. Roger has been chosen by Decibel and Arts Council England as one of 50 writers who have influenced the Black-British writing canon and his work has been featured in prominent anthologies, including The Forward Book of Poetry 2024,

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Books by nine authors, writing across a diverse range of subjects, styles, and approaches, have been longlisted for the 2024 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, sponsored by One Caribbean

KEARNEY — Poet Kwame Dawes is the featured guest at the next Reynolds Visiting Writers Series event hosted by the University of Nebraska at Kearney Department of English.

Villanova University's College for Liberal Arts and Sciences will welcome scholars from the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen's University Belfast for a week of workshops and community events this March.

The hard-hitting collection of poems also talks about the 2004 tsunami and the separatist Tamil Tigers movement in Lanka.

Victorious over the many booby traps that guarded his older brother’s bedroom, a 17-year-old Kwame Dawes perched on the edge of his sibling’s neatly made be

Having won both the UK's top poetry prizes for his Self-Portrait as Othello, Allen-Paisant says Shakespeare's Moor is still relevant today