Date of Burns Night 2022, what Burns Night is and how it is celebrated
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University of Glasgow shine light on Robert Burns’ stubborn commitment
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Exploring Radiohead's connection to William Blake
Poet Hedd Wyn's legacy more than 100 years after 1917 eisteddfod
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Poetry Jukebox celebrates night skies
StAnza - Scotland’s international poetry festival unveils full line-up
Dalry town history celebrated in Scots film and poem
Five Welsh women artists selected for prestigious international reside
Death of the Ulster poet Patrick Kavanagh (1967)
After Hours, Through the Night - Jazz Poetry and the Temporality of Em
New book on poet Sir John Betjamen reveals how he looked at buildings
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Nottingham Trent University unveils dial-a-poem phone booth
The best poetry books of 2021
Wendell Berry - the cranky farmer, poet and essayist you just can’t ig
Robert Bly Obituary
Sorley MacLean - the Gaelic bard whose work still resonates down the y
Fragment of lost 12th-century epic poem found in another book’s bindin
Poet wins fellowship for their writings on disabled community
Queen Mary researcher discovers rare manuscript fragments hidden in li
Orkney author Harry Josephine Giles calls for all Scotland's languages
English poet Alexander Pope’s hidden grotto to be saved
How poetry and the arts can help to address the climate crisis
Ralph Fiennes on identity and patriotism in TS Eliot’s poetry
Remembrance Day poems and quotes to pay tribute to Britain’s fallen so
Blanked verse - the power of erasure poetry
British Library buys rare poetry book discovered in Yorkshire charity
Edinburgh University hosts display of iconic poet's 'prized' personal
Brendan Kennelly Obituary
Instagram Is the future of poetry
Cottage where poet William Blake wrote words to ‘Jerusalem’ is placed
Historic England grant saves Newstead Abbey fort which inspired poet L
‘My Elizabeth Barrett Browning film needs a woman’s touch – but where
Poets Máire Mhac an tSaoi and Brendan Kennelly remembered as two of Ir
Celebrating 70 years of Snowdonia National Park in pictures
Historic manuscripts inspire contemporary climate change poetry
George Mackay Brown - Orkney’s bard is honoured on 100th birthday
The tiny Cheshire village that produced an incredible pioneer for wome
TS Eliot prize unveils shortlist for 2021 poetry award
TS Eliot prize unveils ‘voices of the moment’ in 2021 shortlist
Irish-Australian poet Lizz Murphy - ‘Place is belonging and writing ab
He’s a poet and the FBI know it - how John Giorno’s Dial-a-Poem alarme
Random Acts of Poetry
Poetry on city centre street thanks to Sheffield's poet laureate
'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day' is voted greatest poem
Exhibition tackles bid to write Hugh MacDiarmid out of history
More poetry is needed - two children’s laureates for Wales
City poet Casey Bailey on 'surreal' performance for Queen at Buckingha
Budding poets offered chance for work to be displayed at Metro station
The Waiting Game - Glengoyne whisky to reveal new Jonathon Keats artwo
Lyrical tearaways: removable verses adorn streets for National Poetry
Ripon Poetry Festival returns
Carcanet lands Tóibín's first poetry collection
Japanese poetic form used to record Irish border life
Poet laureate Simon Armitage dazzles at Knaresborough event for feva f
Volunteers share photos and poem inspired by Dorothy Wordsworth annive
Muse and model or painter-poet? Elizabeth Siddal given fresh portrait
Fury as memorial to poet Hedd Wyn is defaced by vandals
Scotland’s most famous poet celebrated by Charles and Camilla
The stunning poetry murals that have appeared in locations around Wale
Why we should all celebrate Kathleen Jamie's appointment as Scotland’s
Town which inspired Victorian poets to showcase 21st century talent
Learning how the great poets saw Hampstead Heath
Scotland’s new makar Kathleen Jamie - ‘Poetry is at the heart of our c
Crven Ban - The erotic poems from 19th century Serbia that reveal a hi
‘Cat Torturers names withheld’ - Edith Sitwell’s gossipy address book
Prince Charles invites Poet Laureate Simon Armitage into his garden sh
Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze obituary
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11 of the most beautiful lines of Irish poetry you'll ever read
Painting of Welsh poet Hedd Wyn unveiled at Caernarfon Castle
The poet with many lives
2021 Polari Prize shortlists
Discovering 'rich' poetry of Hampstead Heath on guided tours
Obituary - Michael Horovitz, poet who co-founded the audacious New Dep
Kirkgate Arts and Heritage gets grant to celebrate Dorothy Wordsworth
The literary fear of losing rurality
Stonehaven's inaugural 'Wee Gatherin' flourishes into meeting of poeti
Sir Walter Scott's 250th birthday celebrated with new coin
Sylvia Plath - Will the poet always be defined by her death
Church bell to ring for anniversary of death of Samuel Taylor Coleridg
New artwork windows that honour 'Britain's finest war poet' Wilfred Ow
Was Chaucer a toxic misogynist, or a staunch women’s ally? Universal
A life in poetry - inspirational writer Michael Horovitz dies aged 86
Rare DH Lawrence book government tried to ban emerges
New summer poems on the London UndergroundOverground
Books - George Mackay Brown and the poet's social role
Flogged, imprisoned, murdered - today, being a poet is a dangerous job
The final sorry days of Burns as cold swims failed to save the Bard
Poet laureate's ode to 'seductive' town by the sea
The famous poet’s grave in a remote Yorkshire village that people trav
Welsh poet Taylor Edmonds delivers urgent climate warning imagining a
Rogue comma which exposed a literary fraud
Paintings and Poetry Mark 50 Years Of The Offa’s Dyke Path
Aphra Behn fans campaign for statue of playwright in Canterbury home
Pulitizer Prize honour for Huddersfield writer's Sylvia Plath book 'no
Sylvia Plath's love letters to Ted Hughes among personal items to be a
Cillian Murphy stars in immersive film installation at MIF
The short, unhappy life of Ivor Gurney — wounded, gassed and driven in
Jada Pinkett Smith posts never-before-seen poem by Tupac for his 50th
Eliza Hamilton Dunlop — the Irish Australian poet who shone a light on
Historic Environment Scotland announce plans to mark the 1500th birthd
Roads taken - the Gloucestershire footpaths that were the making of Ro
Art inspired by Seamus Heaney's poetry goes on display
University helps to fund statue of remarkable Welsh woman Cranogwen
Four Quartets review – Ralph Fiennes meets TS Eliot in a triumphant re
Soutar and MacDiarmid - Exploring the scenic route to Scots poetry
Why Walter Scott's poetry is still relevant today – Professor Alison L
Bolton’s enduring fascination with American poet Walt Whitman
Andrew McMillan pandemonium review – steeped in suffering
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Calls for new Young Poet Laureate for Staffordshire
Dante in the dock - Why Florence wants to clear the poet’s name
The countryside which inspired Heaney’s poetry opens to public
The Folio Society Releases Selected Poems Thomas Hardy
'Lost library' including 29 handwritten poems by Emily Brontë
Flipped eye opens submissions for British African poetry anthology
Anna Akhmatova - where to start with her literature
Poems are the Duracell batteries of language, says Simon Armitage
Emily Brontë - Lost handwritten poems expected to fetch around £1m
Words First: Are you the next spoken word star?
Poet Seamus Deane Dies Age 81
New digital Dylan Thomas archive made available for free online
Places in Worcestershire that inspired these famous writers
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Celebrate Welsh poet Waldo Williams with a line of his poetry
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Anthony Thwaite - Editor and poet who helped shape Philip Larkin’s leg
Gaelic poetry of the 20th century - Recovering from the ravages of Emp
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Virtual tour allows Bard fans to explore Shakespeare's Birthplace
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The Mouth of Lion - Apocalyptic Visual Poetry Anthology
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Lord Byron’s £4,000 cheque that helped create modern Greece
Spirit of the Bard celebrated by rail passengers along Shakespeare Lin
Poet laureate Simon Armitage reads work at Belper Library in live stre
Milton versus the mob
New BBC Alba series to celebrate rich tradition of Gaelic poetry
IDEA VILARIÑO, ONE OF URUGUAY’S MOST IMPORTANT POETS
'A man of great wit and wisdom' - Tributes paid to poet and critic Ant
Sun, sex and acid - Thom Gunn in California
Former Makar Liz Lochhead lashes out on the teaching of her work in sc
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
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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
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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
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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!
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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
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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
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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
