I asked people to send in their thoughts. Most agree with Campbell. This does not surprise me. Over the years I’ve had feedback from readers who would like more rhyme in the poems we run. At the risk ...

Literary discourse is usually distinguished from conventional expressions of speech and writing. Whether poetry is intuitive or not is a debatable issue. However, there’s no doubt that when poets are ...

Poetry is said to be more powerful than any other form of words. The highly stylised forms have survived over the centuries. Today on World Poetry Day, Stuart Kelly looks at one of Shakespeare's most ...

The trapped voice in my head intones poems these days I am a poetry buff. I love poetry, not as a writer or a critic but as a normal reader who appreciates the rich imagery and brevity of words. A few ...

My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Timothy Rasinski, who lives in Stow, Ohio. Tim was told he was a good writer during his master’s degree program. However, his writing is not poetry, but ...

I think I've always been a poet. Even when I thought as a teenager that I would grow up to be a best-selling novelist, I sought out layers to peel off my phrasing; I sought out words that travel ...

“When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man’s concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power ...

When the skies opened and dumped $185 million on an obscure Chicago poetry journal in 2002, it was as much a burden as a gift. The donor, reclusive pharmaceuticals heiress Ruth Lilly, had virtually no ...

A woman who started her own writing business after impressing guests at her wedding with personalised poems, now writes in rhyme for several famous faces. Jess Douglas, 29, from Yorkshire, was trying ...

Kate Tempest opens the door to her south-east London home, dressed casually in grey jogging bottoms, an orange jumper and odd socks. The 24-year-old is exhausted from touring the country, performing ...