By exploring the lives, opinions and deaths of a variety of famous poets, the book builds up a picture of what it is that makes poets want to write in the first place. Here are seven facts about ...

In fact, recently released figures from the Nielsen BookScan showed that sales of poetry in the UK increased by 12% last year – with teenage girls and young women making up the majority of ...

It’s a bitter paradox that even the most virulently antiwar of the famous soldier poets of World ... artist whose paintings Marsh bought. The British verse of World War I reflected two linked ...

What jumps into your mind when you think of the most famous poems ever written? Shakespearean love poems? Something longer that you might find in a poetry book? Maybe something by Poe or Dickinson?

David Annwn, is great-nephew of the famous Welsh bard, Ap Hefin (‘I Bob un sydd ffyddlon’), and winner of the Cardiff International Poetry prize. His work was the focus of a poetry/calligraphy ...