This week we've picked a poem by the man known as the greatest living poet of the Arab world - Ali Ahmad Said Asbar, better known by his pen name Adonis. Born in 1930, the Syrian adopted his pseudonym ...
Adonis (center) attends a poetry event about himself at Minsheng Art Museum in Shanghai on August 4. Photo: Courtesy of Minsheng Art Museum One of Adonis' collages using Arabic calligraphy on ...
Had there been no plague to close the London theatres in 1592, Shakespeare may never have penned his epically erotic poem Venus and Adonis. Had there been no COVID-19 in 2020, Damien Ryan would ...