Credit: Jason Koski/Cornell University Hutchinson is pictured with his former professor, the late Jamaican poet Edward Baugh, ...

Jamaica's former poet laureate, Lorna Goodison, on setting Dante's Inferno on the island of her birth; Journalist Joanna Moorhead on Pope Francis' relationship with the arts; Poet and librettist ...

Past winners include T.S. Eliot Prize winner Sinéad Morrissey, former Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy and Jamaican poet James Berry.

[Caroline Chebet, Standard] Jamaican poet Claude McKay in one of his famous poems, I Shall Return, once described the longing of going back to the village to loiter by the streams and bathe the ...

The late dub-poet, who met a tragically early death at the age of 28 in 1983, documented the struggles of the poor, oppressed and working-class people of Jamaica. In a special Book Festival event ...

This year's jury is made up of Irish poet and playwright Paula Meehan, Jamaican poet and essayist Kei Miller and American poet Hoa Nguyen. The 2020 jurors are reading a total of 572 books ...

Kat was the first person to win a televised poetry slam in the UK and also won the World Slam Championships. Book for free to see Kat Francois and Jay T John live in Hull. Born in Jamaica ...

particularly as the poet later became known for his egalitarian anthem, A Man's a Man for a' That. Scots Makar, Jackie Kay, is among those troubled by Burns' acceptance of the Jamaican job.