The latest Beast Games Episode 8 premiered on Prime Video, featuring shocking twists and eliminations. The recently released episode saw Twana chosen as the first player for a task for which ...

If I felt slightly silly coming to this ancient tourist trap every year, I was comforted that arguably the world’s coolest tourist, the exiled Russian, Nobel Prize-winning poet Joseph Brodsky ...

Among those who wrote after the Holocaust was German poet Volker von Törne, who was wracked with vicarious guilt for his father’s Nazi past. But it is the poems written as the events of the ...

A captain was chosen from the group by voting, to carry out the formalities of the episode's game. By the last round of the episode, Twana was chosen as captain. She was asked to select two players to ...

Beast Games released episode 7, titled The Elimination Train, on Thursday, January 23, 2025. It saw the contestants participate in a game called Trolley Problem, where multiple players were ...

Irish poet Michael Longley has died aged 85. The acclaimed poet was born in Belfast in July 1939 and lived in the city until his death. Mr Longley went to school at Royal Belfast Academical ...

Belfast-born writer Michael Longley has been remembered as “one of the greatest poets that Ireland has ever produced” following his death aged 85. Tributes have been paid to the poet ...

Michael Longley, one of Ireland’s leading poets, died on Wednesday night in Belfast’s Royal Victoria Hospital following a short illness. His 13 collections have received many awards ...

In the late 1950s he moved to Dublin to study at Trinity College Dublin and it was there, in the company of fellow student poets, including Derek Mahon and Brendan Kennelly, that he became ...

Tributes have been paid to the acclaimed Belfast-born poet Michael Longley, who has died at the age of 85. The President of Ireland Michael D Higgins said he regarded him "as a peerless poet" and ...

Renowned poet Kwame Dawes was on Wednesday morning installed as Jamaica's fourth Poet Laureate since Independence. Professor Dawes, speaking at the investiture ceremony at King's House, stressed the ...

Poetry, in particular, intrigued her. A collection of poems from Virginia's newest poet laureate, Mattie Smith. “When I wrote a poem, it was pulling together these tendrils from what I heard ...