Peter Balakian’s Black Dog of Fate will be published in Tamil by the Thadagam Press in Chennai, India later this year.

Peter Balakian‘s Black Dog of Fate will be published in Tamil by the Thaddagam Press in Chennai later this year, and Balakian ...

which is classical Tamil literature’s Sangam-era piece. “Karya purusha karena lakshyam sampadyate (With determined human efforts, the task will surely be completed)," the finance minister quoted from ...

Our Poetry Book of the Month reviews include two invigorating releases by Diane Seuss and a dark, posthumous collection by Tove Ditlevsen Alongside Terrance Hayes, Diane Seuss has a strong case to ...

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 ...

Tamil Nadu's archaeology department recently released stunning evidence that Chief Minister MK Stalin said showed the Iron Age beginning there. Stalin lost no time in locating the new findings in the ...

I believe that reading poetry is an important way to commemorate these victims because it is such a personal form. The events of the Holocaust are familiar to many people as dates and numbers.

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 ...

In a significant finding that alters the understanding of the antiquity of iron in the Indian subcontinent, a report released by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Thursday said introduction ...

The antiquity of iron in the Tamil landscape, dating back to the first quarter of the 4th millennium BCE, was based on samples drawn from archaeological excavations carried out by the Tamil Nadu ...

On 18 January 2025, the Jaffna Cultural Centre was re-named Thiruvalluvar Cultural Centre. Thiruvalluvar generally referred to as Valluvar was a Tamil poet who is renowned for having written the ...

For the father, who is also the poet, looking and feeling are as entangled as parent and child. He is beholding his earlier self being held by his daughter, noticing how the arrangement of their ...