To celebrate New Year's Eve and New Year's Day we've collected some of our favourite New Year poems, from famous poems such as 'Auld Lang Syne', to lesser-known works about welcoming in the new year.

Yes, by all means, write your poems or short stories ... He alone provides, not publishers. There’s Antjie Krog. There’s Breyten Breytenbach. How can your writing affect the world?

The University of California, Irvine (UCI) is seeking candidates for a tenure-track or tenured faculty member for an endowed chair in integrative h ...

The poems in Invisible Dog draw on five decades of work and five poetry collections, collaboratively selected by the poet and his translator, Richard Gwyn. This is a parallel text, and it’s ...

His poetry brimmed with astonishing and often baffling metaphors ... His work – like that of André Brink and later Antjie Krog – inspired me to study literature. Over decades of teaching his writings, ...

(To remember, is to imagine … I remagine you – where “ontbeel” is a new word.) His poetry brimmed with astonishing and often baffling metaphors. But for him, metaphors were never mere literary devices ...

(To remember, is to imagine … I remagine you – where “ontbeel” is a new word.) His poetry brimmed with astonishing and often baffling metaphors. But for him, metaphors were never mere ...

Whether you’re looking to soothe your mind, ignite your inner rebel or make your heart sing, poetry offers something for every day and every mood. As Dylan Thomas said, “poetry is what in a poem makes ...

Susan Spearey’s current research, aided by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council grant (2004-2007), examines the specific challenges to emancipatory trajectories that have been leveled in ...