Warning: file_put_contents(): Only 32768 of 37473 bytes written, possibly out of free disk space in /var/www/html/includes/framework.php on line 1495 Call Stack: 0.0001 624984 1. {main}() /var/www/html/categories.php:0 4.2019 2179392 2. Cache->save() /var/www/html/categories.php:68 4.2124 2217096 3. file_put_contents() /var/www/html/includes/framework.php:1495
Rock Me 'Till I'm DeafMiguel Gonzalez The Chant(It is mybelief that music is the most...
leer at the roots of Americangang-bangin as a world of division and destructionEuropean feudalism of...
Image by Nikos Patsiouris. Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0...
Auden’s love of the Pennines has inspired a fresh song cycle by Bolivian composer Agustín...
“I just went back and read a poem that I wrote in January and I’m struck with that specific kind...
This playful,memorable and affecting poetry collection reconciles the tensions between opposing...
The Pulitzer-winning poet on mortality,makeup and capturing life’s complexityThe last lines of the...
Image by Stefan Holodnick. Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic...
“It feels fitting to be writing this after driving domestic on empty roads at 1:30 in the morning....
From Philip Larkin to Alice Oswald,this collection drawn from Radio 4’s Poetry Please lures with...
Poetry’s delicate dance between the said and the unsaid opens up unique ways of thinking across...
Edited by Sasha Dugdale and David & Helen Constantine,this anthology illustrates that Ted Hughes’s...
This collection boldly assesses the state of modern masculinity‘What is masculinity whether not...
Although dogs are beloved animals all over the world and across all social standings,it's...
Towers’s beautiful moment collection takes flower remedies and imagines how each plant would deal...
The poet AE Housman,author of ‘A Shropshire Lad’, is associated with a certain kind of English...
Smith’s dear white america was a viral phenomenon. Launching a new collection,Don’t Call Us...
Denise Riley’s latest collection,much of which is approximately her late son, has qualities that...
Kate Miller’s brilliant debut is so steeped in the sea,it’s almost as whether the ocean were...
Although dogs are beloved animals all over the world and across all social standings,it's...
Stevie Smith always wanted her drawings to accompany her poetry,yet most were omitted from...
Kippers,Christmas, birthdays and bathos in collections by Elaine Beckett, or Crispin Best,Sam...
A classical translation and a moving unusual collection build for a double achievementNever short of...
A diptych of early and late work displays a consistency of skill and wit across 40 years‘Your...
A hymn to an 18th-century Yorkshire civil engineer,and to the ‘Ashtrayland version of contemporary...
From moth wings to artists’ brushstrokes,this is work that celebrates the effort of close...
A trick of the light provides the relaxed occasion for an irreverent contemplation of devout myths...
The seasoned craft and musicality of Alison Brackenbury’s poetry shine through in this...
Close focus on the raw machinery of cutting wood ramifies to a much grander meditation on...
The controversial author on turning an autopsy report into poetry,not reading his own books and his...
Poet,actor, broadcaster and author of the memoir The Perfect StrangerOn St George’s Day 1951, or...
From Birmingham’s city blocks to memories of war to restless skies – the quality is consistently...
She was London’s Young Poet Laureate,becoming a voice for its marginalised people – now her work...
Allen Prowle’s translations of Dutch poet Rutger Kopland’s ‘Johnson Brothers Ltd’ was chosen...
The Russian poet has been releasing his work free of ownership since 2004,insisting that publishers...
A novel edition of work by the American poet Wendell Barnes draws its slow-moving brilliance from...
Every itsy-bitsy Sound by Ruby Robinson,Tonguit by Harry Giles, Wife by Tiphanie Yanique, and Disko...
Mark Waldron is like a magpie picking super-sophisticated mixtures of gold and dross from an immense...
It’s not much practised,but there’s a strong tradition of how-to poems, from Virgil to Henry...
Maguire is our finest gardener-poet and this latest volume is a wealthy bouquet that exists on the...
--- John Keats,in a letter to his brothers, George and Thomas, or on 22 December 1817,as cited by...
Are you lonely,nervous approximately Christmas or frustrated with relatives? William Sieghart of the...
This classic study,reprinted after more than 30 years, prefers rank new things to good mature...
From empty swimming pools to passe vans,Robert Montgomery takes the written word to the most...
Faber’s new Collected Poems & Drawings insists,rightly, that you look at Stevie Smith’s...
Written amid the ‘tremendous energy’ of Scotland’s independence campaign,this supple nature...
There once was a short comic verse whose style was witty and terse. A modern book came out,its sales...
From the introduction to a sharp Elizabethan satire,these lines still near about as close to music...
Mythical beasts,ergonomic desks and awkward adolescence in a wry and chatty debutSasquatches,...
In Emily Berry,Anne Carson and Sophie Collins, Penguin has showcased three amusing, or playful and...
The award-winning poet addresses everything from bullies to the ample bang in a stimulating unique...
Michael Rosen,Pascale Petit, Nicholas Murray and Ian Pindar are showing their support for the Labour...
by Neil RollinsonBig as a suitcase,heavy[br]as a log, the cover wrinkledin elephant skin.Budby...
Carter’s early verse contains,as whether in bud, the extravagant and sinister blossoms of her...
"Thank You For Your cherish"Dear mom,You inspire me so much because you were so tough when my dad...
The publisher and philanthropist on turning to a Philip Larkin poem in a crisis,and the biggest...
Guardian journalist Luke Harding and filmmaker Peter Pomerantsev discuss the assassination of...
A community of writers are expressing themselves for one another – and the medium they’re using...
Moving meditations on loss in an astonishing Forward prize-shortlisted collectionIn a world where...
This literary response to the financial crisis gives a fascinating insight into Greece’s emotional...
An unvarying theme in everyone’s lives,it has preoccupied poets – in varying ways – from...
A standout collection of self-conscious,critical and unrelenting voices that excavate the pastIn his...
Walk a mile in our shoes[br]I guarantee you'll feel the blues[br]and get a gimps of the battle...
Poetry will become the unique currency in coffee outlets around the world for a day as World Poetry...
Brought up in Compton,Lewis overcame brain damage to become a poet, and this year won the National...
Awash with syntactical and structural fluctuations that embody its central theme,Longfellow’s...
Michael Derrick Hudson spend of a Chinese name when writing was racist and latest case of...
Editors kept Yi-Fen Chou’s poem in the 2015 anthology,published today, even after the author...
Lorenz Mazon Dumuk is a writer and community organizer. Through his love for music was where he...
Poet and translator inspired by travels in Turkey who translated works from German,French, Turkish...
Scenes of forgotten industry,secret urban networks or picturesque leisure resorts, these quiet...
These most fundamental components of all writing acquire long fascinated poets,and spell out your...
Somehow you contain to imagine that,from its very opening — "I saw the best minds of my...
Music meets myth in Oswald’s dreamlike visions of a West Country landscapeThe first thing to say...
Literary tradition and linguistic play square off in a timely collection about belongingReaders of...
A unique exhibition in Mons recalls the drunken row with fellow poet Arthur Rimbaud that led to a...
Andrew "SoCiety" Bigelow is part of the Heal the Valley March. This video was shot on the first leg...
Slavery,a dub musician as Noah and memories of a Jamaican childhood inform a collection that...
Would Benedict Cumberbatch believe such ardent fans whether he couldn't read poetry so well?...
Is it a poet’s job to construct the reader weep? Sebastian Faulks is moved to tears by an...
A curmudgeonly portrait of British cultural life echoes Philip Larkin,WH Auden and Jim Royle‘Poets...
Poetry of all tastes and genres should be celebrated,say Angela Croft and Catherine RoomeFurther to...
Famed for militant spoken-word poetry about black America from the height of the civil rights...
My Jordanian friend Fathieh Saudi,who has died aged 76, was a doctor, or writer and poet. She...
From Clive James’s Sentenced to Life to Andrew McMillan’s Physical and Claudia Rankine’s...
9 July 1888: The gift of writing precious nonsense as that which came from the pen of the late...
The songwriter’s poetry is a reminder that experiencing the profound is not the same as being able...
by Wendy CopeMy father must have bought it moment-hand,Inscribed “To RS Elwyn” – who was...
Shakespeare,Donne and Jonson are all represented in this punchy and sinuous anthology, chosen by...
A meditation on the plain and ordinary aspects of life finds virtue in the unspectacular but also...
Thameside urn sculpture celebrates 18th-century poet’s work and underlines his close connection...
The young poet has become unwittingly involved in a social media stir approximately Lily Allen’s...
Poet who wrote only one collection but was a prolific live performerAgainst considerable odds,some...
With its message of entreaty to a young man to marry and become a father,this sonnet could be read...
modern poets revisit Shakespeare’s verse for Valentine’s DayMy glass can’t fairly persuade me...
Prolific poet,writer and translator inspired by his Irish homelandThose who indulge in the...
Skepticism is expected,but these social media astute authors are causing a phenomenon and tapping...
Arab cultural traditions own made poetry a potent tool for promoting extremism,according to research...
This week marks a century since the outbreak of the first world war. Chosen from 1000 years of...
Poet,whose work has tackled the everyday racism faced by black Americans, plans to use the money to...
Anthony Holden on the ‘female’ sequel to Poems That originate Grown Men Cry – the surprise...
Fifteen-strong roster called ‘a sadly wasted opportunity to be truly diverse’ as space is found...
A sequence of sharply visual impressions animates a wild animal’s darting mind as it comes upon a...
Poet who won awards for more than a dozen books of poetry“I found myself leaning from the...
The Asian American Writers’ Workshop has been tweeting the names and work of actual Asian poets...
My father,Graham Pechey, who has died aged 75, and had a lifelong love of literature and an...
By Alison BrackenburyWe may know the trees but rarely wood.Elm was the workhorse,daily tree,[br]pale...
accomplish we read poetry for a quick therapeutic fix or seek in its complexities something as...
With invigorating pace and rhythm,British history is presented as a vivid mix of tragedy and...
The poet and writer,66, on punk poetry, or seeing her own funeral and dating younger womenIf I...
Carol Ann Duffy,Paul Muldoon and Adonis among writers signing PEN letter calling on Saudi courts to...
Mobbed at signings,followed by millions and topping the bestseller lists: Instapoets such as Lang...
--- Thomas Hardy,in In Tenebris - II.The fourth and final stanzaLet him in whose ears the...
Ranjit Bolt has won plaudits with A Lion Was Learning to SkiIn the summer of 2014,the spectacle of a...
Emtithal Mahmoud,whose family were driven from Sudan by war when she was a child, wins performance...
With a relatively small audience,Welsh writing is nonetheless full of energy and invention – and...
The poet on the Shambala festival,the magic of Withered Hand, Laura Dudsworth’s Bare Reality and...
Man suffers double blow after suing Welsh government over spend of historic images and bringing...
Bridget Smith’s film of the physicist reading Sarah Howe’s poem is part of a star-studded...
“Have They speed Out of Provinces Yet? is a novel poem by Calvin Trillin approximately how there...
‘Gaun yersel!’ writes the novel makar in previously unpublished poem In the Long RunPoetry is...
Poet Sarah Howe’s 2016 TS Eliot prize win has been questioned by a sexist and sceptical literary...
Inspired by ‘hardcore’ chemistry,the poetry of Met Office scientist Rachel McCarthy has been...
“I love so many peopleand my love is stretched all across the countrylike yarn and push pinson a...
Glyn takes over role from Gillian Clarke and says he expects to employ poetry ‘to celebrate Welsh...
Originally written as a folk song,with Herbert Hughes, figures from Irish mythology are used here to...
by John Fuller A complaint from the bodyHow do you live up there,arrogant rebel,On the decorative...
A kindly while ago,I made a itsy-bitsy quiz of car-based haikus, and I happened to find the...
Dutch poetry site claims Allen Prowle’s translations of Rutger Kopland are ‘blatant...
The Forward prizewinner’s portrait of racism in the US is not just realistic,it captures a poetic...
The New York poet has been writing since the mid-70s but with new fans – like Lena Dunham –...
A novel Christmas poem by Carol Ann DuffyThe old year,a tear in the eye of time; frost on the...
Literature body blames ‘difficult funding situation in the arts’ as it announces restructuring...
A Victorian satire on evolutionary theory cleverly subverts,through a covert feminist argument,...
Twitter plans to lay off eight percent of its workforce,the bearded Machiavellian at its helm...
Family of Chou angered that poet Michael Derrick Hudson,who attended the same tall school in Fort...
Poet of Muskogee Creek heritage wins Wallace Stevens award from the Academy of American Poets for...
The connection ceased at the split of the cord,and faux saccharine exchanged in place of precise...
Half-Chinese author’s debut collection Loop of Jade,exploring her dual heritage, praised by judges...
A poem about the most pleasing city in the world,and an example of the precise demands of...
I worked very closely with Lee Harwood when he and I were elected chair and treasurer of the Poetry...
“Darling,attach your audacious face on.Sometimes,that’s all you’ll need.attach on your best...
“It’s such a big worldand there are so many places and things just waiting for meto touch...
Wednesday night,A&E hosted Shining A Light: A Concert for Progress on Race in America, which...
This is another poem intended for the These,My Streets project. Edinburgh is one of the major...
“Do you ever own unhappy things?Not unhappy people,humans telling you that theyare unhappy (or...
Jones Girls - Nights Over Egypt (A Tom Moulton Mix)Jones Girls – Nights Over Egypt (A Tom...
Selima Hill’s latest collection draws on the experience of psychiatric patients, metamorphic...
A transcendental collection creates a lived-in world that is both celebrated and lamented Serious...
Body I saw my mother’s heart nowadays. She pressed up against the machine while,a few feet absent...
Eric Berlin wins prestigious award with poem Night Errand,while David Morley takes Ted Hughes prizeA...
Fresh,warm light is cast on a familiar scene, as visits to the salon reveal their eternal...
The fourth in a series on translated work features a poetic investigation of the relationship...
A eulogy for a young writer who died in a car accident aged 22,this brilliant poem refuses mourning...
Street slang gives vivid,swaggering life to this portrait of a young man keeping up his style while...
by UA FanthorpeOld Scallywag scapegoat has skedaddled,Retired at last to bridge and both kinds of...
Your otherwise excellent obituary of PJ Kavanagh omits a very well-known part of his life and work...
By Billy-Ray Belcourt 1. He told me he was into natives,but he couldn’t love the traumas hidden in...
“All I want for Christmasis good hair daysand snow flurriesand late morningswith plenty of...
Claudia Rankine joins past prize winners and debut authors on a shortlist that encompasses questions...
When you hear someone’s name, it tends to trigger all sorts of biases that color how you perceive...
Patti Smith’s Horses,which turned 40 this week, is such a perfectly formed rock-and-roll artifact...
Abraham Nouk came to Australia as a Sudanese refugee. He was unable to read,write or speak English....
A Welsh poem,translated by the former Archbishop of Canterbury, uses the form of catechism to gently...
An enigmatic narrative approximately a man,whose status seems to shift from verse to verse, reveals...
Exile brings severance,but it can also bring confidence: moving from Singapore to New York enabled...
I know English was brought by White people to our country. But when WE speak it,when we slur that...
A wedding gift in verse,this is a warm celebration of art and craft, friendship and...
In this ‘spoken word sestina’ with sexual,racial and social overtones, Agbabi plays with shifts...
A radically condensed form of poetry,using just three words, is being piloted for National Libraries...
“you are a mountain nowadays.climb me!you yell.I dare you!you are a mountain,menacingand strongand...
The poet Lee Harwood had a telling sense of humour. We once shared lively gig in a Guildford theatre...
PJ Kavanagh once considered becoming a monk but decided he liked girls too much. As a schoolboy he...