On Tuesday evening, award-winning writers Bernadine Evaristo and Claudia Rankine read excerpts of their work and reflected on ...

Dawes, who was born in Ghana, said he plans to work in schools to help revive an interest in reading and teaching poetry.

Dawes, who has written dozens of books of poetry, fiction, essays and criticism, looks to celebrate Jamaican writing, oral ...

Widely acclaimed poet Professor Kwame Dawes has been appointed Poet Laureate of Jamaica for 2025 to 2028. In the ceremony of investiture, held at King’s House on Wednesday, January 22, 2025, he was ...

He then introduced Dawes, whose brothers Taylor and Griffin Goldsmith lost homes and their studio in Altadena’s blaze, backed by John Legend, Sheryl Crow, Brad Paisley, Brittany Howard and St ...

And with the evening’s opening number, rock band Dawes made sure to follow through on that promise. Joined on stage by a veritable who’s who of Grammys favorites — John Legend, Sheryl Crowe ...

Kiena Dawes has been labelled "a very poorly girl" by the mother of the man who subjected her to years of domestic abuse. Ryan Wellings, 30, was jailed for six and a half years at Preston Crown ...

If I felt slightly silly coming to this ancient tourist trap every year, I was comforted that arguably the world’s coolest tourist, the exiled Russian, Nobel Prize-winning poet Joseph Brodsky ...

Irish poet Michael Longley has died aged 85. The acclaimed poet was born in Belfast in July 1939 and lived in the city until his death. Mr Longley went to school at Royal Belfast Academical ...

Tributes have been paid to the acclaimed Belfast-born poet Michael Longley, who has died at the age of 85. The President of Ireland Michael D Higgins said he regarded him "as a peerless poet" and ...