Cherry blossoms at Yoshino. Katsushika Hokusai 1833.  Met Museum, Rogers Fund 1922. Public domain うつせみの世にも似たるか花ざくらさくと見しまにかつちりにけり Like the wo...

by Caroline Lawrence I was going to post a different blog but have just been listening to a brilliant podcast for Classics Confidential ...

Today is 50 years since the Civil Rights march in Derry  the reaction to which is generally thought to have sparked off the NI Troubles  I ...

by Antonia Senior I have written before about historical fiction in the form of poems, and how I value them (and, poorly, turn my pen to t...

According to their own originary myth, the dawn of the last century saw the birth of the ‘Re-Echo’ Club, a group of literary bon-vivants in ...

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