The Edithorial

I spent half the week in Philadelphia giving a public lecture on that city’s most famous poet at the annual Ezra Pound Internationa...

Coast where the Danaids arrived from Egypt I spent two days finding the places where Aeschylus set some tragedies, in the Argolis, aro...

As if the world didn’t have enough problems already, Donald Trump has pulled the USA out of the Paris Climate Agreement which, for all i...

Protest against the Dhaka Themis So the angry conservative Sunnis of Bangladesh have won their months-long battle to get the statue o...

Some of Lucie Jones' Personalities ‘This madness we’re running through…/It’s madness, it’s madness’ sang the three fragmented avat...

When Small I thought Tory was short for Conservatory Times are tough for the British Left.   For four long years, since UKIP broke in...

Tony Harrison, who likes alliteration even if you don't, is 80 today.  He is far and away Britain’s most important living poet.  I...