Modern accounts of Sylvia Plath’s renowned work and legacy seek to highlight the author’s resilience through a decade-long ...

I celebrated a funeral for an 83-year-old woman named Marion. A few days before the actual funeral, Marion’s daughter came in to make arrangements. I asked the daughter to tell me ...

Death is a door of entry into God’s heaven. Jesus said "I am the way, and the truth and the life." He also said, "I am the good shepherd. I am the light of the world and I am the door. So when we die, ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Irish poet Pádraig Ó Tuama about a new poetry anthology he edited called "44 Poems on Being with Each Other" and his own collection called "Kitchen Hymns." ...

The final stages of life are often accompanied by a whirlwind of emotions — fear, sorrow, uncertainty, and even relief. The ...

Andrew Krinks talks to David Dark about his new book ‘White Property, Black Trespass' and what he thinks about whiteness, ...

Hebrew scholar and Jewish academic Irene Lancaster reflects on challenges experienced by European Jews 80 years on from the ...

Ms Gibson’s sisters spoke of the “joy and purpose” she found in her strong Christian faith. She was a regular attender ... was written by a close relative in the months after her death. The poem was ...

A tribute written by Esther Gibson’s four younger sisters was read to public inquiry into the 1998 bombing on Monday.

Longley won a number of awards throughout his life including the TS Eliot Prize, the Feltrinelli International Prize and the ...

Its garden is the poem’s otherworld—based on the ancient geocentric cosmos and Christian eschatology ... In 1327, six years after Dante’s death, the Dominican friar Guido Vernani wrote ...