The Library of Congress' new collection includes more than 5,000 items from the Broadway legend, including ideas for Sweeney ...

German poet Durs Grünbein and British translator Karen Leeder have won the 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize for the collection Psyche Running. The $130,000 prize is the world's largest prize for a ...

The brainchild of the poet Stephen Spender, and translator Michael Scammell, the magazine’s very first issue included a never-before-published poem, written while serving a sentence in a labour camp, ...

For all his assiduity and weighty pronouncements on literary matters, Stephen Spender all too often comes across as a slightly ludicrous figure. Evelyn Waugh loved to mock him as a ‘semi-literate ...

He was probably right about his poetry, but his autobiographical writings – of which New Selected Journals is the latest instalment, combining new and previously published material – deserve to be ...

The winning translation can be read on the Stephen Spender Trust’s website ( First Prize – Open Category (2024) – Stephen Spender Trust ) and will be published in print in Modern Poetry in ...

When feminist author Lynne Spender was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, she decided to access voluntary assisted dying. She confronted death the same way she confronted life.

A few months after the Waldorf Astoria conference, Schwartz published his first poem in Commentary. “Today Is Armistice, a Holiday,” later reprinted in Vaudeville, signaled a new detachment, with a ...

Whilst in Paris a job at Café de Flore led to him meeting famous French intellectuals Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, and Jean-Paul Sartre, as well as the writers Truman Capote and Mason Hoffenberg, ...

His first published work, a poem, appeared in the autumn of 1914. ‘Awake! Young Men of England’ was a call to arms for a nation newly at war. He was 11 years old and his name was Eric Blair. He took ...

Campbell gleefully embraced the intended insult as a compliment and wrote a poem called Talking Bronco in which he took aim at Spender and MacSpaunday.