The hope is that if you live through it, there will be art waiting on

City fathers spurned Dundee poet William McGonagall’s bid to upstage R

TS Eliot prize unveils 'unsettling, captivating' shortlist

Jeoffry the poet’s cat — the nine lives of Christopher Smart’s purring

Claudia Rankine and the construction of whiteness

‘Master poet’ Derek Mahon inspired pupils at Belfast High

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - What's the Story.

Poetry, nature and covid-19

Nobel Prize for Literature winner Louise Glück

Scottish Greens unveil first ever poetic PPB

From standup to stanzas - Frank Skinner's terrific guide to poetry

Graham Fawcett tells all about Shakespeare at the Brewhouse

Belfast-born 'master poet' Derek Mahon dies aged 78

Petit takes inaugural Laurel Prize for Mama Amazonica

Knapp to 'amplify voices that are often silent'

Harry Gallagher’s poetry for people

New Poems Tell The Untold Stories Of English Heritage

What the sonnets tell us about Shakespeare

Clive James -'The poems I remember are the milestones marking the jour

Rimbaud and Verlaine - France agonises over digging up gay poets

Faber announces two new urgent and masterly acquisitions for the 2021

Frank Skinner’s podcast returns with Absolute Radio

Inua Ellams - ‘London is the closest I’ve felt to a home’

Dove Cottage to host its first ever digital poetry event with Simon Ar

Writing was just for fun then - Simon Armitage on writing Zoom!

University of Exeter and Charles Causley Trust celebrate current and f

Anne Stevenson obituary

She will soar - portraits of women poets in UK collections

National Poetry Day follows lockdown poetry passion with bumper plans

The walk - Beinn Chuirn, Perthshire

William Wordsworth: 250 Years Young

VC Gallery poetry remembrance competition

GCSE English 2021 AQA looks set to U-turn over poetry

6 Ukrainian poems that capture a bold moment in contemporary poetry

Ian Macleod Distillers displays poems that reveal themselves over the

New road opened in Ipswich named after ‘forgotten’ Czech poet

‘A doubtful gleam of solace’ reading Tennyson’s In Memoriam AHH in dif

Statue for world famous poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge given funding boo

Some of the stranger books found in the Bodleian Library

At the chalkface Poetry is not an option

Bill Murray turned up on a building site to read poetry to a group of

Poetry Has The Power to Move Us, So Why Is It Still Taught In Such a B

A forgotten poet of the people

Stepping back in time and waiting for the Darfield bus - Ian McMillan

Vic Keegan’s Lost London 158 - The house where William Blake lived

Seamus Heaney HomePlace launches virtual arts programme

Obituary - John Manson, literary researcher with an unparalleled under

Shortlist for Armitage's inaugural Laurel Prize revealed

Joe Biden picks Seamus Heaney to add to his appeal

Patti Smith remembers her first-ever gig in New York, 1971

Huge poems appear in Gloucester Park and across the city - here's wher

Reading about Sylvia Plath, I understand we should all reserve the rig

Anthology of black and Asian North-East poets launched

Helena Bonham Carter and Tobias Menzies reunite for poetry film

Dylan Thomas legal battle costs taxpayers at least £1million after Wel

Edinburgh International Book Festival Susan Mansfield previews this ye

Russian illustrations reimagine Lewis Carroll’s poetry for the apocaly

Open air concert bringing live music to Windsor Great Park

Simon Armitage criticises plans to make poetry optional for GCSE pupil

England’s finest character actors feature in video series for Adrian B

'A dangerous first step' Simon Armitage among poets to blast GCSE deci

Poet and singer Kae Tempest comes out as non-binary

When Hope is the Thing with Fangs

The Guardian view on poetry in schools don't let it go

Book review Antlers of Water, edited by Kathleen Jamie

Crucial crowdfunding push for Ottery’s Coleridge memorial statue

Why society needs poetry to function – especially now

GCSEs Here's why you shouldn't give up on poetry

The village that imagined a godless world

Former home of William Wordsworth sold at auction to Buddhist charity

How Poetry Is Helping To Explore What It Is Really Like To Be A Vetera

Patients as Poets patients’ and carers’ experiences of living with adv

Killing time the poetry of Keith Douglas

The Scotsman Sessions #77 Kathleen Jamie

Queer poetry and big brass bands a beginner’s guide to Romania’s Roma

Poetry and pretence the phoney Native American who fooled Bloomsbury s

Memories and poetry brewed with tea and a little sugar

Dove Cottage set to reopen this month

How we decide on cultural canons

BYGONE DAYS Life and times of poet George Barnett from The Sixtowns

Revealed how a Parisian sex worker stole the heart of poet EE Cummings

Mancunian poet Lemn Sissay to revisit roots

I reread the GCSE poems we studied and honestly wtf

The Safety of Clouds Fledge By Jonathan Humble

Southbank Centre faces 'very significant losses' - with 400 jobs at ri

Ian McKellen reads Shakespeare sonnet for Patrick Stewart’s 80th birth

Lockdown poetry competition launched

Wharfedale poets create a ‘treasure trove of verse’

Writer and lawyer, Mona Arshi appointed Honorary Professor of English

The historical amnesia of culture warriors

Ron McKay's Diary Yes this is heresy, but I never really got Rabbie Bu

Highlanders and Exiles Scottish Gaelic poetry in the 19th century

Linton Kwesi Johnson wins major literary prize in memory of Harold Pin

William McGonagall The story of our best worst poet

Benjamin Zephaniah Coppers were standing on my back and I thought OK,

What are the best poems about football?

Claude McKay, a poet, activist and communist

A mirror up to perfection

Black Lives Matter, Poetry, and Pedagogy On Gil Scott-Heron and Global

The arts are no disposable luxury

Bristol's 'queer poet' Caleb Parkin to represent 'all voices'

What is to be done about the Welsh literature GCSE poetry syllabus?

This is Robert Burns's link to slavery and what it means

Seven poets on shortlist for Edwin Morgan Poetry Award

Poetic justice black lives and the power of poetry

Surprise twist in the battle to keep Dylan Thomas' childhood home in C

Women in the Well: When Joan Jonas Met Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill

Simon Armitage ‘The events of this year are all I can see and think ab

Reclaiming Rumi How Islam was erased from the Persian poet's work

Coronavirus has left us lost for words and struggling to make sense of

New programme launched for writers of colour in Sussex

Poetry sector 'too white' by far, report finds

Michael Rosen home from intensive care after coronavirus

Diversity in poetry on the rise – but 'resistance to inclusivity' rema

Polari Prize 2020 longlists announced

A 13th-Century Persian poet’s lessons for today

Britain's Best Poetry Walks

BBC documentary shines light on Gaelic poets old and new

Beauty in code – 5 ways digital poetry combines human and computer lan

Roger Robinson 'Poets can translate trauma'

Poetry Foundation Responds to Criticism, Pledges Action

Using Poetry to Combat Loneliness and Social Isolation

The Poems That Poets Turn to in a Time of Strife

Erasmus Darwin and the great slaughterhouse of nature

Ledbury Poetry Festival to go online this year

Fenland Poet Laureate Awards 2020 to 2021 open for entries from next m

Amy Levy - the queer Jewish writer revered by Oscar Wilde but shunned

Winchester Poetry Festival rescheduled due to coronavirus

Breathing Easily

Carcanet fields two for Forward Best Collection award

Devotions Upon Social Isolation

Scotland’s Makar Jackie Kay - This is still my country, but it needs t

Good Grief

US books world rocked by racism rows

Seamus Heaney and the ‘Dullness of Grey Cement’

Carol Ann Duffy - how the acclaimed poet has found new life

Statue of black poet Alfred Fagon feared attacked with bleach

Police violence, heritage and love: Forward poetry prizes