Can you spot the Easter eggs and figure out which song inspired each poem? Which song inspired this poem? Agodon follows ...

It is the final song in Les nuits d’été, the cycle by Berlioz, which sets six poems of Gautier. They were friends and ...

Poetry is the oldest and most varied art we have: if anyone tells you there is one correct method for composing a poem, ...

9. “She helped me to love poetry and myself. She’s always been an empowering legend and now forever more,” Winfrey continued.

Nikki Giovanni, trailblazing poet and voice of the Black experience, dies at 81 in Virginia, but one poem remains a powerful ...

Adrian Frazier’s no-holds-barred biography of the American-born Irish poet acknowledges the cost of a life turned ‘into the ...

The distinctive dialogue between poetry and visual art turns observers into participants and prompts them to respond ...

Where the poetry of David Brooks and Jill Jones intersects is their detailing of domestic life and drawing attention to ...

The time has come! Today we launch The Telegraph’s fifth annual poetry competition, and the theme this year is – a drumroll, ...

The theme of this year’s contest is ‘Time’ – a subject tackled by everyone from Emily Dickinson to Simon Armitage ...

Nikki Giovanni’s passing leaves a void in the literary and cultural worlds, but her legacy endures in her words and the lives ...

Nikki Giovanni died this week, at the age of eighty-one, as that rarest of things: a best-selling poet. Her work burst onto ...