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Hozier reads Seamus Heaney’s At the Wellhead: ‘Sing yourself to where the singing comes from’ Video: Watch the singer read Heaney’s poem which was filmed as part of a series for Poetry Day Ireland 2019

Artist: War and Peas

The best books by women of the 21st century On International Women’s Day, writers and critics pick the best works by women since 2000

10 Famous Book Hoarders I have a hard time getting rid of books, and if you’re reading this space, you probably do too. As Summer Brennan put it, “what kind of degenerate only wants to own 30 books (or fewer) …

HAPPY EUROPEAN DAY OF LANGUAGES!
For the last couple of years we have produced posters with quotes or proverbs about languages in all the official .
Today we give you something very special. We tried to find a quote in each official EU language which would help us celebrate !
Feel free to share it and enjoy this very special day!
Łukasz (Brussels)

We went in search of the world’s hardest language – The Economist English is pretty simple. Learning to speak Ubykh or !Xóõ presents more of a challenge

10 Berlin Poets To Look Out For A list of Berlin's top ten poets to check out.

Yale senior wins the Individual World Poetry Slam Championship The stage was set for Emtithal “Emi” Mahmoud ’16 at the Individual World Poetry Slam Championship (iWPS). Entering the final round of the competition, she had drawn the last slot for the last bout. De

The World's Most Spoken Languages And Where They Are Spoken This beautifully illustrated infographic (above), designed by South China Morning Post’s graphics director Alberto Lucas Lopéz, shows the most spoken known languages in the world and where they’re spoken by the 6.3 billion people included in the study. Based on records collated from the database Eth…

Want to learn a language? Try living here We asked residents in Port Moresby, Jakarta, Lagos, Delhi and Los Angeles: what's it like to live in a country that's home to more than 300 unique tongues?