The greatest casualty of our education system? Poetry. Either you’re from an older generation and you know a few lines by ...

Hundreds of millions of poetic words have been written throughout history. Navigate your way into this beautiful art form with this list of the most famous poems ever written. What jumps into your ...

“The grant I initially received from the Doric Trust - matched by the Buckie Blethers [a local group dedicated to promoting ...

Kevin Young perfectly illustrates poetry’s enduring vitality — and his new book reveals exactly why. A survey of American history through the “intimate eye” that only poetry can provide, Brown ...

American poet Emily Dickinson. A mystical recluse, she lived all her life in Amherst, Massachusetts. Emily Dickinson was a 19th-century American poet whose name has become synonymous with classic ...

A poet on the Isle of Man says her poems in Manx "are part of my identity and are there for others who want to take the language up". Former teacher Annie Kissack, who was appointed the fifth Manx ...

Vallejo was born in 1892, the youngest of eleven children, in an Andean town in the north of Peru. Using the word for a child ...

The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly. Parts of two previously unknown poems by the Greek lyric poet Sappho have been discovered on an ancient papyrus. An ...