Poetry isn't as scary as you think. These 14 collections of poems tackle everything from grief and race to family and love.

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The English poet John Milton grappled with this question in his famous epic, Paradise Lost, first published in 1667. And Alan ...

Scepticism over the advance of technology has led to a revival of RS Thomas’s poetry, as seen at a choral festival inspired ...

Daljit Nagra selects Belief in Poetry featuring the work of poet John Donne. Presented by Pádraig Ó Tuama. From 2022. Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive and selects Belief in Poetry ...

Gerard Manley Hopkins spent many vacations at Monasterevin House in Co Kildare as a guest of the Casssidy sisters, and for ...

In a one-hour event, Poshard will read selections from his poetry alongside works by some of his most admired poets. The ...

Jane Kenyon’s “The Pond at Dusk” is a quiet, mischievous reckoning with nature and mortality. Our critic A.O. Scott plumbs ...

Long before pens met parchment in monasteries, an illiterate herdsman named Caedmon changed the course of English literature. Inspired by a divine dream, he composed the first known Christian hymn in ...

The moon has been an important subject in English poetry dating back to Chaucer in the 14th century, who was an astronomer as ...

The words of these famous Black poets cut to the core of the human experience and the realities of being Black in America Black poets you need to know There are so many types of poetry in the world, ...