The Ethics of Cats (Broken Sleep Books, 2025) is her debut full-length poetry collection. She is an Arts Council of Ireland Next Generation Artist, and lives in Co Mayo ...

But the number of birds currently available has dropped, which may force Charles to cancel the traditional Boxing Day shoot — a central part of the royal family’s Christmas holiday plans ...

The UK’s largest collaborative fundraising campaign, the Big Give Christmas Challenge 2025, is now inviting applications from charities of all sizes and sectors to take part. Last year the matched ...

A rhopalic poem or sentence is one in which each successive word is one letter (or, typically in poetry, one syllable) longer than the previous one. Due to the fact that the personal pronoun ...

The song, "The Twelve Days of Christmas" is an English Christmas carol. From 1558 until 1829, Roman Catholics in England were not permitted to practice their faith openly.

Organised by Hawakal, the independent publishing house known for its poetry catalogues, the 2025 edition of Ethos remained true to its ethos: “letters and lore, lifestyle and legacy.” This year, that ...

He was especially good at teaching Latin and French. In addition, the teacher wrote acrostic poetry and designed the seal of Davidson College. A number of books — I have a half-dozen of them ...

To learn a poem by heart is, as Michael Gove put it when he was education secretary, “To own a great work of art forever”. The young Patrick Leigh Fermor , walking across Europe, recited ...

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