Poetry can get us through the darkest days - just ask the BBC
Hastings’ PreRaphaelite poet -Christina Rossetti (1830-94)
Daffodils - An inspiration for centuries
Simon Armitage to embark on decade-long UK library tour
'A poem about a dream' - Wendy Cope on Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis
Rebels turn to poetry in battle for Yemeni hearts
Bloodaxe overhauls board and launches prize devised with Evaristo
Antiques Roadshow viewers shocked over value of statue found in compos
Harry Guest obituary
Prince Charles records Gerard Manley Hopkins poem for Christians
A reflection on 'Poetry for The Beat Generation':
Dante - On a journey towards Christ
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: your guide to the poet’s life
The best recent poetry – review roundup
how the #MeToo movement upended Australian poetry
Poem about raising raise dual-heritage children in Wales wins National
Howl - illuminating draft of Allen Ginsberg's seminal poem found
Can an AI algorithm write poetry? UK to launch user generated
Giant poetry trail coming to Blackburn and your words could be emblazo
The soundwalk apps bringing poetry and history to our lockdown walks,
Robert Burns poem found in Suffolk album could go for thousands
StAnza -Scotland’s international poetry festival’s first online event
Tobias Smollett -The pioneering novelist who turned to writing after h
Nicola Sturgeon praises Jackie Kay's 'outstanding contribution' as Sco
Obituary - Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet, bookseller and 'philosophical
Second translator of Amanda Gorman poem was removed, claims it was bec
The bicentenary of the death of English poet John Keats (1795–1821)
The odd couple - John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Passion of Saint Pelagius by Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim
Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey – the grave of Charles Dickens – wi
Hastings’ PreRaphaelite poet - Christina Rossetti (1830-94)
Dead Poets Live - Stevie Smith – Shakespeare’s Globe
Poem brings Scots archaeological ruins to life
Church allows fan of poet Sylvia Plath to be buried alongside her 'lit
Lawrence Ferlinghetti - a veteran for peace
'Shocked by the uproar' - Amanda Gorman's white translator quits
Writ in water, preserved in plaster - how Keats' death mask became a c
Dutch writer Marieke Lucas Rijneveld to translate Amanda Gorman's work
Our city froze’ - rereading Kolau Nadiradze’s 1921 poem on Georgia’s l
The Scotsman Sessions #190 - Imtiaz Dharker
Lawrence Ferlinghetti – Beat poet, publisher and painter – dies at 101
John Keats - five poets on his best poems, 200 years since his death
Six literary pilgrimages in the UK to plan for
A joy forever - poetry world prepares to mark bicentenary of John Keat
James Hogg at 250 the farmhand who became one of Scotland’s greatest
Remembering Audre Lorde – the legendary Black, lesbian, mother, warrio
The Radical Politics of Oscar Wilde
TS Eliot winner Bhanu Kapil - 'It's hard to study something by standin
How poet Keats will be 'brought back to life' for 200th anniversary of
William Wordsworth’s glasses and the lifelong struggle with his eyesig
Gertrude Stein and the defamiliarisation of the familiar
Valentine’s Day was reimagined by chivalrous medieval poets
How do I love thee... passionately!
Sylvia Plath
Photography project inspired by Heaney
National Poet of Wales Ifor ap Glyn publishes new poem for World Cance
Imagining a future for John Keats — the novelist
Poetry magazine comes under fire for publishing work by convicted sex
James Fenton - Ulster-Scots poet dies aged 89
Sex, Drugs, and Bullet-holes - L’Enfant Terrible and the Politics of t
The poetry genius of Ted and the teacher who unlocked it
Pam Ayres confronted by masked gang with axes outside her Cotswolds ho
Burns Night - Celebrations across North Cumbria over the years
Rescuing Elizabeth Barrett Browning from her wax-doll image
Luss poet John Walker's tales of heartbreak and history
The Peterhouse Poetry Workshop, or how I started writing poetry for fu
Everything you need to know about Biden inauguration poet Amanda Gorma
The fascinating secret Edinburgh New Town love affair that inspired fa
Latin link shows how Scottish poems looked to Europe, not England
The most famous works from Scotland’s bard – and why he was controvers
Read Amanda Gorman’s Poem ‘The Hill We Climb’ In Full And Feel Immedia
Scots Makar Jackie Kay speaks out about her experiences of racism in S
Where to start with James Baldwin
A Social Sonnet - Making Sense of a Post-Pandemic World
Rimbaud's remains will not be moved to Panthéon, rules Macron
Poet Amanda Gorman will read at Joe Biden’s inauguration
Cottage in the grounds of Lord Byron's ancestral home up for grabs for
‘Poet laureate of Twitter’ Brian Bilston: ‘I’m still pretty shy
Dante; Tasting Notes
Hailee Steinfeld on what ‘Dickinson’ can teach us about modern celebri
How a lost manuscript revealed the first poets of Italian literature
Bard boy – David Garrick and the cult of Shakespeare
poet laureate Simon Armitage tells of Britain’s great ordeal
A poetic odyssey around Byron's Britain
‘We never know when, why or how we might become a refugee
Jay Bernard wins Young Writer of the Year Award
poet laureate Simon Armitage on landscapes, libraries, home and edgela
Following in the footsteps of our hike-loving literary giants
Letters written by a young WB Yeats fetch nearly £50k at auction
Elizabeth Barrett Browning letter describing lonely quarantine up for
Why Sylvia Plath’s art transcends her tragic life
Lake District former home of two famous poets still on market
William Wordsworth: The Ice Skating Poet
The court case sparked by Rudyard Kipling's most famous poem
The great Poetry Foundation shakedown
Items belonging to iconic war hero and poet Hannah Senesh will go on p
Revealed - The poets behind London Underground's famous words of wisdo
The book of love - 400-year-old tome of John Donne’s poems is unveile
Kathryn Williams & Carol Ann Duffy share new single 'Snow Angel'
Ruth Padel and Ilya Kaminsky - In Conversation
Suicide was always a Spectre for John Berryman
British Library apologises for linking Ted Hughes to slave trade
Eavan Boland has received a posthumous nomination on the Costa Awards
'Death does not conquer me' the poetry and painting of Isaac Rosenberg
Bognor's Blakefest goes online with unique celebration of visionary po
Harold Bloom betrays how little he really understood literature
Scotland’s poet laureate ‘inspired’ by Jamaican-born muse for Victoria
Back to the Middle Ages - a journey through Dante’s villages
The tragic downfall of Lord Alfred Douglas
Refugee poets awarded high-profile Oxfordshire award for work
Seamus Heaney - Treasure trove of unseen work revealed
A treasure trove of unseen writing by Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney
Lemn Sissay creates poem about impact of climate change in Ethiopia
Winchester Poetry Festival launches mentoring scheme
Sheffield’s new poet laureate aims to encourage next generation of wri
Driven to distraction — the unhappy life of Vivien Eliot
7 Epic Facts about the Canterbury Tales
Caught in time’s current Margaret Atwood on grief, poetry & the past 4
Poetry penned by Auschwitz returned to Museum
Ceremony for memorial of Shropshire poet Wilfred Owen
First World War poet Wilfred Owen, treated for shell shock
The Fall of America Journals, 1965-1971, by Allen Ginsberg
Joe Biden - Making Hope and History Rhyme
Joe Biden recites Seamus Heaney poem in campaign video
Letters, Etc. of John Berryman
Diane di Prima, Beat poet and activist, dead at 86
Obituary - Derek Mahon, poet whose life’s work is embedded in the Iris
Dylan Thomas - International collections of poet go digital
Benjamin Zephaniah surprised by Big Issue vendor’s poetic performance
Dylan Thomas - ‘lost’ fifth notebook reveals how the great Welsh poet
Letters - Anne Stevenson obituary
Roger McGough - The great Bill Bryson is retiring, but it doesn’t appe
RebeccaSwift
Online streaming of 'Bullets and Daffodils' for Remembrance Week
Seven poetry collections every child should read
Brodsky’s elegies — the bear who played the flute
How Instagram became the new poet’s corner
Indie press Nine Arches to mark 100th book milestone
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
Ellisland Farm's role in Robert Burns' story examined online
Prose and poetry competitions announced as part of BBC Radio Cymru
‘I still feel persecuted and discriminated against and I am tired'
Know your place – poetry after the Black Death
Documentary film made about ‘world’s worst poet’ Walter McCorrisken
Rage against the dying of language
To err is human – even for the greatest poets
Nick Cave names his most loved poets
‘Booked for immortality’ – let’s remember Rupert Brooke as he really w
