During the pandemic lockdown, Yale’s Ayesha Ramachandran tried an experiment in poetry consumption. Ramachandran, an associate professor of comparative literature, bought stacks of books of ...

Does contemporary poetry all sound the same to you? Is it a problem with the way poets read it on the radio, with the voice that gives the end of each line an Australian-style non-questioning question ...

Ġorġ Borg is one of Malta’s best exponents of all styles of literature. Essentially, he is a poet, and his poetry is not only his cheval de bataille, but also his non plus ultra in sentiment, ...

Is rap music a form of lyric poetry? A new anthology, published by Yale University Press, makes the case. Jeffrey Brown reports. And finally tonight: from our political wrap to rap, the music, and ...

Now almost 40 years old, rap burst out of the Bronx to become one of the dominant musical and cultural forces in this country. A new book, The Anthology of Rap, tracks the development of the genre -- ...

Every week, poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive. This time he selects ‘Lyrical Ballads’, a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, first published in ...

In a preface to the collection Contemporary Catholic Poetry: An Anthology, the editors April Lindner and Ryan Wilson discuss their criteria for measuring, more or less, what kind of Catholic a poet ...

Until recently histories of literature have emphasised the seminal role of epic poetry in the development of literary cultures. The genre originated in traditional oral epic, which has long been ...

Style, Vol. 54, No. 1, Special Issue: We-Narratives and We-Discourses across Genres (2020), pp. 48-61 (14 pages) https://doi.org/10.5325/style.54.1.0048 • https ...