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This video conveys how love expressed in Petrarchan and Libertine poetry says a lot about renaissance patriarchy...Transcript View the other animations in this series Learn more about writing and interpreting poetry

...writing? James Berry was born in Jamaica in 1924, but moved to England during the wave of immigration from the West Indies led by the Empire Windrush. From a young age Berry had an interest in language, and showed an aptitude for spoken word and through writing soon realised he could explore the world from different perspectives. He became part of a new generation of...

...writing a stage adaptation). They came after World War I, when many illusions about innocence, the upper class, Englishness and patriotism had reached breaking point. They contain traces of the experiences in the trenches that marked both Milne and Shepard, whose illustrations of carnage at the Somme and Paschendale were the subject of a separate recent exhibition. The...

...Writing a novel is pretty darn impressive. Lots of people have the big dream but never actually type 'The End'. If you've managed to do that, then you've achieved a lot already. Well done! So what's next? If you want to see your book on library and bookstore shelves, your best bet is to get a literary agent to represent your work. Many publishing houses don't accept what...