The Irish poet’s work was rooted in a close feeling for the local—but reached out to embrace a world of readers.

A framed poster of a stamp depicting Langston Hughes, who wrote some of the best poems in American history. Poetry provides the perfect way to indulge in the escapism of reading without the commitment ...

Even the previously uncollected work in “The Poems of Seamus Heaney” shows a master craftsman in full control of his powers.

Three new collections by mid-career poets lay claim to stories of identity, suffering and hope, to a kind of collective ...

When Abel Debritto first started researching and writing about Charles Bukowski, he knew that the prolific underground poet, short story writer and novelist, who had written thousands of poems in his ...

The Intentions of Thunder” includes poems from Smith’s nine collections, as well as new and previously uncollected poems that ...

Two women have saved a war poet's work from being lost - twice over and more than 100 years apart. Only 24, Nowell Oxland died in World War One in 1915, nine days before one of his poems, about his ...