This is a shameful day for intellectual life in this country. One of the world's greatest living poets has withdrawn from the election for Oxford professor of poetry because of a nasty ...

Angelou is one of the world’s greatest poets, with more than 170 poems published. The work discusses identity, struggle, resilience, and social justice. She was the first Black woman to write ...

"He was our greatest living poet. More pertinently, he was a beautiful human being, kind, generous, open, humorous. He was truly a wonderful person. "Wherever in the world his career took him ...

“Rest in peace Michael. It was a joy to know you.” SDLP leader Claire Hanna said he was “our greatest living poet”. “More pertinently, he was a beautiful human being, kind ...