I’ve never quite bought the old witticism, attributed to the Irishman George Bernard Shaw, that Britain and the United States are “two nations divided by a common language.” But while there’s a ...

Andrea Brady receives funding from Arts Council England. She is affiliated with the Globe Road Poetry Festival and Barque Press. Last week, Claudia Rankine’s book, Citizen, won the Forward prize for ...

There are four original manuscripts containing poetry in Old English—the now-defunct language of the medieval Anglo-Saxons—that have survived to the present day. No more, no less. They are: the ...