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 ...

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 ...

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?

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 ...

Poetry is rising in popularity in the UK as social media drives an unexpected renaissance in the often overlooked genre. Last year, sales of poetry books reached £14.4 million – their highest ...