Louis MacNeice’s Portrait of Athens, a radio play broadcast by the BBC in November 1951, came at a time of reconstruction throughout Europe but also at a time when the world was on the verge of yet another war. In it we ...

General poetry section

Poem 'About Roots'

Shirley Jackson’s 1962 We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Iain Banks’s 1984 The Wasp Factory and Sonya Hartnett’s 2009 Butterfly are novels separated not only by decades, but by distance being produced in the United States, ...

poetry

Poetry

The mass migration of almost a million Russian speakers to Israel following the collapse of the Soviet Union, referred to as the Great Aliyah, marked a significant turning point in the history of Zionism. Unlike in previous ...

Scottish poetry section

Almost Home embodies the outsider’s search for belonging amidst the foreign and the familiar. Written from several vantage points of a narrator who seeks to find a sense of calm in the wake of turbulence and a center from ...