Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to marriage, The Skunk, combines exile and erotica, moving from an American wilderness image ...

Pupils at Stourport Primary Academy are celebrating becoming world record breakers after taking part in the largest poetry ...

“For a long time,” writes Kathleen Jamie in her afterword to The Keelie Hawk (Picador £12.99), “I’ve wanted to write a suite ...

March 21st is World Poetry Day, a day to celebrate the beauty and power of words. This special occasion shines a spotlight on ...

The organising committee has chosen the theme Tổ Quốc Bay Lên (The Homeland Soars), inspired by the poem Dáng Đứng Việt Nam ...

Nothing New,” which the American poet wrote in 1918, is published for the first time in The New Yorker’s Anniversary Issue.

Today, 5 February, is World Read Aloud Day (WRAD). The Publishers’ Association of South Africa (PASA) and Nal’ibali, South Africa’s reading-for-enjoyment campaign, invite you to help spread a love of ...

The 23rd Vietnam Poetry Day will bring together poets born during the resistance wars against the US imperialists, after 1975 ...

May this February 14th be filled with love and romance. Share these poems with your soulmate and let them know how much they ...

This Valentine's Day, enjoy romantic verses by Mirza Ghalib, reflecting deep passion and longing, perfect for reading in ...

Year six and Year seven pupils at Forres Sandle Manor took part in the breaking of the record for the world's largest ever poetry lesson, joining more than 43,000 pupils across the globe.

Sassoon and Owen capture in verse the sheer frightfulness of trench warfare; they are the supreme English war poets of their ...