Heather Lende, Alaska's previous Writer Laureate, shares a poem read on a cold, dark night during a dinner with friends.
This is a poem set in Scandinavia, in which Beowulf battles against a monster called Grendel. Anglo-Saxons also enjoyed riddles. In the 900s, around one hundred were gathered together in the ...
It says he learned it. In Anglo-Saxon times, children were educated by memorising things. Memorising and reciting poetry was a very popular activity for the Anglo-Saxons. Books were very rare so ...
3rd Bankstown Biennale: Same Same/Different will be on display at Bankstown Arts Centre until 1 February 2025 as part of the ...
The shifts associated with being in your 40s and 50s – gray hairs, career doldrums, a longing for something more – seem as ...
Beowulf, the hero of an early Anglo-Saxon poem, likewise does not show signs of slowing down until old age, when a dragon proves too much for him to kill without help from a much younger man.
Beowulf, the hero of an early Anglo-Saxon poem, likewise does not show signs of slowing down until old age, when a dragon proves too much for him to kill without help from a much younger man.
The new series of the popular free lecture series will cover a diverse range of topics from poetry, climate change, bee’s ...
Venture into Somerset’s cider country to mark the turning of apple season at a traditional wassailing ceremony.
A follower of Emerson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson became a passionate abolitionist and supporter of John Brown.