As he grappled with the traumas of the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack and the subsequent anti-Israel acts taking place ...

Seamus Heaney Fellow, Fiona Benson, has chosen her shortlist of four for this year’s Moth Poetry Prize, and commended a ...

Faiz was a powerful binder of all revolutionary spirits, which is not rage but pain. His metaphors were the common product of ...

Historically, poets have had less to say about pandemics than you might imagine. Hardly any English-language poetry written ...

Northern English poet Harrison published a powerful work inspired by vandalised gravestones in his hometown Leeds.

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. I often hear from peers and students that ...

Theatre of Voices were also visiting the city as part of the 25th anniversary celebrations of the Cambridge Music Conference.

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 ...

The Wonderful World of Webkinz: 2005-??? Born in the hazy, nostalgia-filled years of the early 2000s, Webkinz was nothing if not a product of its time. A 2D computer-based video game paired with a ...

Instead of defaulting to the notifications on my phone, poetry has inspired me to begin the day in a different way. By Charley Locke Most mornings, as soon as I wake up, I feel the pull of my phone.

you can listen to them in front of the chosen artwork as a part of our new Poetry Audio Tour of the collection galleries. Faith Ringgold. American People Series #20: Die. 1967 Elegy for Us “You wanna ...

He didn’t read book reviews—or so he claimed—and he didn’t write them, preferring instead to let his poems find their natural audience, which turned out to be a wide one. He mocked ...