We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: ...

While waiting for domestic travel to resume across our wide brown land, Brian Johnston looks to Dorothea Mackellar's "My Country" for inspiration.

BYU professor of English Lance Larsen has been writing poetry for four decades. His poems are regularly published in leading ...

Poet and author Charles Ghigna shares the story of a poem he wrote after waking up to his infant son's babbling over a nursery monitor.

as Frost, who had every reason to veil his sexual velleities for his friend’s wife when he wrote about them in public, would ...

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 ...

Thousands of years before Odysseus crossed the ‘wine-dark sea’ in Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey, hunter-gatherers might have island-hopped their way to Africa across the Mediterranean.

Carl Phillips’s latest collection, Scattered Snows, To The North (Carcanet), is rich in his by-now familiar long, clause-heavy sentences and his ability to reproduce the feeling of a mind ...

Virtual photography in games with detailed environments offers nature photography opportunities. Games like Assassin's Creed, Ghost of Tsushima, and Horizon offer scenic natural settings for ...

A rare hand-written copy of one of the most famous love poems ever written has been discovered after hundreds of years. Dr Leah Veronese uncovered the version of William Shakespeare's Sonnet 116 ...

Our editors and experts handpick every product we feature. We may earn a commission from your purchases. As a poet myself now, that fascination with the written word remains, although it has ...