As ever, I can’t claim to have read all the hundreds of books that were published this year or to believe I can say which are “best ... few pages at a time. The longer poems in particular ...

Author of more than 25 books, she was a born confessor and performer whom fans came to know well from her work, her readings ...

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

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

West Knoxville writer Gardner Dorton recently had his poetry book published, and it's been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, ...

The whole of this record was clearly inspired by winter and music boxes, and that much is clear in the instrumentation of “Pagan Poetry”. When the music suddenly ceases and Björk repeats “I love him” ...

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Nikki Giovanni, a prominent poet, civil rights activist and educator, has died at 81. 'We will forever be grateful for the ...

Emily Dickinson appears once again on our list of poems about life, this time with words ... in poor health all her life, married a man whom she did not love and lost her best friend to suicide.

Photo: Jakkapan21/Getty Images (modified by author) Finding true love is difficult, but there is no more incredible feeling than loving and being loved. Writing or sharing a romantic poem demonstrates ...

How can love set something going? What does a “fat gold watch” mean to you—and how is it different from a slim silver one? Why “set you going” rather than “led to your birth”? And what does all ...

The contents page lists 20 poems, but the title-poem turns out to contain 20 sonnets all on its own – and some of the best I’ve read in quite some time ... their love-triangles and ...