James Macpherson's infamous "discovery" of epic poems of ancient Scottish heroes, heroines and wild landscapes caused a ...

Steve Ely’s Eely (Longbarrow, £14.99) features a half-exhausting, half-thrilling epic about the life-cycle of an eel, while ...

Witness Ralph Fiennes as a battle-scarred Odysseus in The Return, a powerful new adaptation of Homer’s epic poem, The Odyssey. After two decades lost following the Trojan War, Odysseus finally returns ...

Humanity’s unshakable attraction to warfare and its ramifications are unmistakable themes that run throughout this powerful ...

In 2025, The Divine Comedy Musical will tour Chongqing, Changsha, Nanjing, Wuhan, and Nanchang in April and May. Subsequent ...

Anyone can read a poem. Anyone can write a poem. Quite a few people can write a pretty decent poem with a little effort. And ...

Orlando Reade’s fascinating history of John Milton’s epic shows that Paradise Lost may still be a poem for our times, writes ...

A new translation of "The Iliad" pairs well with Ukranian war poetry and a documentary on its suffering people.