At a loss for words? Poetry expresses the feelings we struggle to convey. Open any poetry book for proof: You’ll find love poems for romantic moments, silly rhymes for kids and limericks for ...

Forty years ago, Northern English poet Harrison published a powerful work inspired by vandalised gravestones in his hometown Leeds. Then, when it was screened on TV in 1987, a national furore erupted.

Announcing the Eighth Annual Fighting Words Poetry Contest! How can poetry be an effective response to current events and the issues impacting our communities? How can journalism and poetry help us ...

We may earn a commission from your purchases. As a poet myself now, that fascination with the written word remains, although it has evolved from limericks to sonnets and free-verse love poems as well.

The Supreme Court on Monday (March 3, 2025) asked how a poem by Congress MP Imran Pratapgarhi, which plainly translates to the “suffering of injustice with love”, stirred the Gujarat Police ...

Dorothea Mackellar’s poem from 1908, My Country, is famous in Australia despite its outmoded colonial assumptions. Many people are able to quote its lines about ragged mountain ranges ...

Dublin poet and broadcaster Pat Ingoldsby has died at the age of 82 in a nursing home in Clontarf in Dublin. Mr Ingoldsby, who was born in Malahide on August 25th, 1942, is survived by his ...

The legendary poet, writer and broadcaster Pat Ingoldsby has died at the age of 82. The popular author, who was a household name and a familiar figure on RTE television, died in a nursing home in ...

Renowned Gujarati poet and essayist Anil Joshi, known for his works such as Kadach and Statue, and for returning his 1990 Sahitya Akademi award to protest attacks on literary writers in 2015, passed ...

Over the past three years, a team of academics has edited and translated more than 100 poems about the legendary figure, some dating back to the 10th century. The poems, sourced from over 500 medieval ...

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “I have slept in many places, for years on mattresses that entered,” by Diane Seuss, and his own poem “This Is a Test of the Federal Emergency ...