The Literary Yard is an e-journal about books, edited and maintained by Onkar Sharma. The journal seeks to promote the literary arts such as poetry, fiction, drama, novels and essays, etc. The founder seeks your cooperation to maintain and promote the e-journal.
Edmund Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry (1757) brought the sublime closer to experiences of awe, terror and danger. In Burke’s opinion, nature is the most sublime object, capable of generating the strongest sensations in […]
Today, Amazon Publishing has announced a call for submissions for the Little A Poetry Contest, dedicated to the discovery of emerging poets. The contest will be judged by the acclaimed poets Cornelius […]
When culture begins to mix with politics, it makes the life difficult for artists. It happened when Sudheendra Kulkarni, the organizer of the book launch ceremony of former Pakistan Foreign Minister Ahmed […]
The Owl and the Pussycat is a classic nonsense poem by Edward Lear which has always been one of favourite poems since my childhood. I’ve deliberately chosen this poem for today since […]
The twentieth century was one of the worst for the whole of Europe as the struggle for supremacy among different states turned the continent into a warfield where history’s deadliest wars – […]
Rumour Books India has released a new novel Déjà Karma. This is a new novel by Vish Dhamija, a British Indian author of crime fiction. His first novel, Nothing Lasts Forever, was […]
Gary Beck is back with yet another collection of poems called ‘Conditioned Response‘. ‘Conditioned Response’ reminds us that we are prepared by family, experience, government to react to the events that affect […]
I haven’t read the first two parts of Gaither’s Europe Trilogy. Nor did I feel the need to. ‘Time of Exile’ is a strong work that has the potential to stand out […]
In a condom commercial when a former porn star sensuously frolics on a sandy beach a band of moralists, allergic to strawberries, stand in unison to dutifully condemn the repugnant acts that might […]
Dylan Thomas seems to be influenced by William Blake for his autobiographical poem Fern Hill where he puts his own life into poetic perspective and describes the personal evolution from innocence to experience. Fern […]
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