From its rich seams of oral poetry, to the wealth of writers and publishing houses currently based here, the North East is a dominant region on the poetic landscape. Suzannah […]
Set in 657AD, moving between Hartlepool and Whitby, and drawing on Old English, modern English and Northumbrian dialect, Bob Beagrie’s new epic poem, Leásungspell, takes readers on a historical, geographical […]
As it moves from the 1940s to the present day, Alan Hollinghurst’s new novel The Sparsholt Affair traces the complexities of gay sexuality against the backdrop of a changing England. Ahead of […]
The lines on a modern map that mark the borders between Bulgaria, Turkey and Greece do not adequately represent the changes and shifting identities that this region has undergone throughout […]
Margaret Atwood’s novel The Handmaid’s Tale is a dystopian classic. Does the new television adaptation do it justice? Sarah Lohmann writes about the series as it reaches its halfway stage. […]
