Marius, one of four companions in Avowed, embodies the idea that 'No Man is an Island' in his character development and ...

Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to marriage, The Skunk, combines exile and erotica, moving from an American wilderness image ...

Both poets explore love as a transformative and omnipotent force, delving into its complexities and transcendence. Donne ...

When a hero from my youth dies, something is lost. Such a hero was Alan Shoulder, formerly of Newcastle United, Blyth Spartans and so many other northeast football clubs, who passed away today. I’m ...

Our Poetry Book of the Month reviews include two invigorating releases by Diane Seuss and a dark, posthumous collection by Tove Ditlevsen Alongside Terrance Hayes, Diane Seuss has a strong case to ...

If I felt slightly silly coming to this ancient tourist trap every year, I was comforted that arguably the world’s coolest tourist, the exiled Russian, Nobel Prize-winning poet Joseph Brodsky ...

I believe that reading poetry is an important way to commemorate these victims because it is such a personal form. The events of the Holocaust are familiar to many people as dates and numbers.

Irish poet Michael Longley has died aged 85. The acclaimed poet was born in Belfast in July 1939 and lived in the city until his death. Mr Longley went to school at Royal Belfast Academical ...

For the father, who is also the poet, looking and feeling are as entangled as parent and child. He is beholding his earlier self being held by his daughter, noticing how the arrangement of their ...

Belfast-born writer Michael Longley has been remembered as “one of the greatest poets that Ireland has ever produced” following his death aged 85. Tributes have been paid to the poet ...

He relied more heavily on rhyme here than he would in later offerings, and the poems of this time still draw comparisons with the Metaphysical poetry of Herbert and Marvell. The collection does ...