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If you stop and look around you, you”ll start to see. Tall marigolds darkening. A spring wind blowing. The woods awake with sound. On the wooden porch, your love smiling. Dew-wet red berries in a cu …

”Orpheus, the pagan saint of poets, went through hell and came back singing. In twentieth-century mythology, the singer wears a steel helmet and makes his descent ‘down some profound dull tunnel’ in …

Discover the joy of expressing what’s inside you, with fill-in-the-blank poems that are sparking a creative movement. We all have stories inside us, whether or not we consider ourselves ‘creative’. A …

Through this verse translation of Vergil”s Book VI of the Aeneid we journey with Aeneas through the Underworld to meet his father. Accompanied by Sibyl, the prophetess, who instructs him first to pl …

Brooding Clouds is a posthumous collection of short stories and poems that were written as a prequel to Phaswane Mpe”s acclaimed bestseller, Welcome to Our Hillbrow. In these thematically linked sto …

These quotations were developed and written or posted sometime between 1976 and 2016, and there is no particular order to how the quotes are arraigned except I did tend to put that most recent quotes …

In 2010, with the full support of the MOD, John Jeffcock, poet and a former soldier in the Coldstream Guards, invited contributions for a book of modern war poems. He was overwhelmed by the response: …

This book aims to gather a selection that represents the diversity and richness of American poetry written by poets who share a sophistication that promises to evolve, with continued effort and risk, …

A major career-spanning collection from the inimitable Nobel Prize-winning poet For the past fifty years, Louise Glück has been a major force in modern poetry, distinguished as much for the restless …

A SUNDAY TIMES BEST POETRY BOOK OF THE YEARIn this blistering anthology, poet, editor and DJ Kayo Chingonyi brings together a selection of exceptional Black British poets. This is his dream mixtape …