By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

Throughout history, poets have captured the essence of love, desire, longing, and devotion in their verses. Romantic poetry ...

One could call it beginner’s luck or perhaps Phoebe Jessen had a touch of the Bard buried within her soul for a while now, ...

I was amazed to go with her to plays and see how she could write furious notes in the dark and be able to read them at the ...

Hope is crucial for those of us with chronic lymphocytic leukemia, or any cancer, helping us navigate the disease's ...

Justine Mitchell’s one-woman performance of the works of Emily Dickinson was strangely apposite ... fortitude that produced 1,800 unique poems from the self-imposed isolation of an ever ...

The body of a woman has been recovered from the River Dee close to where two missing sisters disappeared in Aberdeen. Eliza and Henrietta Huszti, both aged 32, were last spotted on CCTV in the ...

In a dim room above the freightyards, next to an old brass bed, an angel is taking off his wings. He winces a little as he eases the straps that run down into his chest: the beat of the wings is the ...

But this came against the backdrop of the Troubles in Northern Ireland – his first poems appeared in the ... up honed into something more like Emily Dickinson. By the time he graduated he ...