Dr Louise Powell is an award-winning working-class writer from Middlesbrough. She is the winner of the Sid Chaplin Northern Writer’s Award 2...

Some months ago, when I was half-way through Emily Wilson’s new translation of The Iliad , I had to set it aside. This is not a criticism of...

What a pleasant surprise to find that Brian Howell is still writing and publishing fiction. I first came across him years ago in UK literary...

A Physical Education: On Bullying, Discipline & Other Lessons is a book of memoir, interwoven with literary, film, drama and social sci...

This is a tender and moving collection celebrating and memorialising two lives, the poet’s mother and her own husband, but succeeding, as al...

Much has been written about the pros and cons of using slang in fiction. It's a difficult act to pull off, if your audience cannot under...

Criticism, like poetry, cannot be written at arm’s length. At least not the best. The critic has to suffer the imperilment of the artist: en...

  Kathy Pimlott’s heart-breaking pamphlet, After the Rites and Sandwiches , portrays the impact of her husband’s sudden death from falling d...

Last week, Trinity College Dublin announced plans to re-name its main library after the highly acclaimed Irish poet, Eavan Boland. Consequen...