If you’re looking for quick poetry for reflection, Rumi’s work is a stellar place to start. This short but powerful set of verses comes from The Egyptian Book of the Dead, a collection of ...

With these relatively short poems, you’ll understand why poets are ... It’s not the kind of comforting book that will help you grieve; it’s a haunting meditation on love and loss.

If you are one who cannot stomach left-wing lyrics or metrically muted cries of despair, you may well find one or both of these narrative poems as agreeable a surprise as John Brown’s Body.

David Roy chats to award-winning Belfast-born author Lucy Caldwell about the Belfast Book Festival’s Mairtín Crawford Awards ...

A book full of poems to read, shout, whisper and enjoy. Poems that rhyme, poems that don't, long poems and even short poems - get ready to enjoy them by yourself or with friends! You can get a ...

Poetry is alive and well in Alaska, and April as Poetry Month is a great time to meet or reacquaint ourselves with three very ...

Five books – most of them from independent presses – have been shortlisted for the 2025 Al & Eurithe Purdy Poetry Prize. The $10,000 prize honours the most outstanding new poetry book published in ...