Any anthology is a product of its editor’s decisions. In “ 100 Great Catholic Poems ” (Word on Fire, $34.95), editor Sally ...

Mexican Ballads, Chicano Poems combines literary theory with the personal engagement of a prominent Chicano scholar. Recalling his experiences as a student in Texas, José Limón examines the ...

Bob Dylan hit a songwriting peak in the mid-1960s that might just be unrivaled in the history of popular music. Writing and ...

“a blackbird knaps/ the flint of my heart,/sparks fly” – Geraldine Mitchell opens Naming Love (Arlen House, €15) with a haiku – a succinct herald to her theme of frozen grief alleviated ...

Langston Hughes poems guaranteed to move you Langston Hughes is one of the most prolific yet most underrated American poets ...

Next week, Father John Misty will release his sixth album, Mahashmashana. It’s one of his best, displaying all the qualities associated with the man: wit, insight, grandiosity, melody, beauty, a ...

The band’s first phase features a charming, very English sense of melancholy and melodrama – matched with wilful prog ...

The Juliet Letters remains one of the more divisive albums in Elvis Costello’s wide-ranging discography. When it was released ...

Humanity’s unshakable attraction to warfare and its ramifications are unmistakable themes that run throughout this powerful ...

Director’s film Blitz, starring the Irish actor, focuses on a tight family of three trying to keep heads aloft as the bombs fall in London in 1940 ...