Literary CriticismHelen Vendler's new book follows on from her monograph on Seamus Heaney in providing some of the most enjoyable and robust criticism of poetry found anywhere today. Her unapologetic ...

OK, Valentine's Day is right around the corner, which means it's time to buy a card... and find a way to express how you really feel about your partner in that card. There's no time like the present ...

"It's funny what good fortune does in the wrong mind! I mean, I try to catch myself when I'm giving my own good? luck short shrift. The poem falls in that category of my preoccupation in poems (and ...

If I had to name one poem, written in England in my lifetime, of unquestionable greatness, it would be Philip Larkin's "Aubade". It was published in the Times Literary Supplement on December 23, 1977.

edited by Carol Ann Duffy and Gillian Clarke (Faber £20) If you were to buy just one anthology this year, it should be this magnificent, fat volume — a grand sweep of poetry chosen by the poets ...

October 6 was National Poetry Day in the UK, and to celebrate, iNews editor Felicity Morse posted a brilliant poem that proves mansplaining has existed since before Twitter gave the term mainstream ...

I have loved Poetry all my long life. It is impossible for me to name an all-time favourite – though Derek Walcott’s A LETTER FROM BROOKLYN would be a contender. However, there is a poem I consider ...