Literary CriticismHelen Vendler's new book follows on from her monograph on Seamus Heaney in providing some of the most enjoyable and robust criticism of poetry found anywhere today. Her unapologetic ...

OK, Valentine's Day is right around the corner, which means it's time to buy a card... and find a way to express how you really feel about your partner in that card. There's no time like the present ...

To understand this poem, you don’t need biography. Your own personal understanding of the loss of innocence and the pain of mortality serve just as well as Thomas’s disastrous attempts at adulting.

Maxwell Onyemaechi Opia-Enwemuche is an enigmatic poet and a master short story teller with a full length novel to his credit, 'The Oracle Isieke'. This poem was first published on wrr.poetry.ng.

If I had to name one poem, written in England in my lifetime, of unquestionable greatness, it would be Philip Larkin's "Aubade". It was published in the Times Literary Supplement on December 23, 1977.

October 6 was National Poetry Day in the UK, and to celebrate, iNews editor Felicity Morse posted a brilliant poem that proves mansplaining has existed since before Twitter gave the term mainstream ...

edited by Carol Ann Duffy and Gillian Clarke (Faber £20) If you were to buy just one anthology this year, it should be this magnificent, fat volume — a grand sweep of poetry chosen by the poets ...

I have loved Poetry all my long life. It is impossible for me to name an all-time favourite – though Derek Walcott’s A LETTER FROM BROOKLYN would be a contender. However, there is a poem I consider ...