Johns Hopkins University Press/Anna Sophie Conring/Shutterstock/ December 19, 2023 How writing ‘made us human’ – an ‘emotional history’ from ancient Iraq to the present day Martin Worthington, Trinity College Dublin Evidence suggests that writing was probably invented in southern Iraq sometime before 3000BC. But what happened next?
Sign outside the Shelbourne Hotel in Dublin. William Murphy April 5, 2017 Who do you think you’re apostrophising? The dark side of grammar pedantry Rob Drummond, Manchester Metropolitan University The ‘rules of grammar’ aren’t set in stone, so correcting other people is pointless and demeaning.
Oral expression is woven deep into the roots of Africa’s cultural traditions. EPA/Nic Bothma October 28, 2015 Why it matters that poetry flourishes on the page as well as on the stage Kobus Moolman, University of KwaZulu-Natal It gets us nowhere to distinguish between page and stage poetry, except as terms in an analysis. There is bad and good on both sides. Both forms need to be kept alive and to flourish.