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Cockermouth poets tell a watery tale
More than 80 ways of looking in verse at floods, torrents, waterspouts, seas, rain - and a faraway desertThe Cumbrian town of Cockermouth has been a model of how to revive a community following a...
View ArticleGuardian Books Poetry podcast: Fiona Sampson reads George Herbert
Fiona Sampson reads two poems by the seventeenth-century Anglo-Welsh poet George Herbert, "Love" and "Heaven".Fiona SampsonTim Maby
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Simon Armitage to walk south-west coast path, paying his way with poetry
Poet plans to travel from Minehead to the Scilly Isles this summer, giving poetry readings in return for food and shelterThe award-winning poet Simon Armitage is preparing to throw himself on the...
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'Publishing poetry is easier than ever before': the teen poetry online...
Ollie Lambert, a teen who created The Poetry Challenge on the Movellas website, explains the appeal of sharing poetry onlineFind out more about how sites such as Movellas are kickstarting teen...
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How the internet is kickstarting a teen poetry revolution
Sites such as Movellas and Wattpad are seeing huge numbers of teens writing, reading and sharing poetry. Alison Flood investigates the phenomenon and talks to some of the teens publishing their poetry...
View ArticleGuardian Books Poetry podcast: Michael Symmons Roberts reads John Donne
In our series of poets reading their favourite work written by others, Michael Symmons Roberts reads an early poem by John Donne: Elegy 19 To His Mistress Going To Bed.Tim Maby
View ArticleGuardian Books Poetry podcast: Fleur Adcock reads Judith Wright
The latest podcast in our series of poets choosing their favourite poem finds Fleur Adcock reading Judith Wright's Request To A YearTim Maby
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The Pike: Gabriele d'Annunzio – poet, seducer and preacher of war by Lucy...
The man Mussolini hailed as a John the Baptist of fascism was a national hero with an insatiable appetite for sexOn 7 August 1915, Gabriele d'Annunzio and Giuseppe Miraglia took off from Venice in a...
View ArticleGuardian Books poetry podcast: Alice Oswald reads There Was a Man of Double Deed
Alice Oswald rounds off the first week in our series of poets choosing their favourite poem with a reading of a nursery rhyme, There Was a Man of Double DeedAlice OswaldTim Maby
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Magnifique! Académie française elects first British-born member
Poet and professor Michael Edwards, 74, from Barnes, joins elite learned body that defends the purity of the French languageA poet, critic and literature professor from Barnes in southwest London has...
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In Secret: Versions of Yannis Ritsos translated by David Harsent – review
Beverley Bie Brahic is charmed by a collection of taut, laconic lyrics from Greece's preeminent poetI don't know if it's the same in Greek, but in French, en secret is a loaded phrase, with the usual...
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Saturday poem: A Childhood, by Robin Robertson
by Robin RobertsonThe last bottle of lemonade is noddingin the rock pool, keeping cold. A childhood,put away for later. I'm too busy to noticethe sun is going, that they're packing up,that it's almost...
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Dear Boy by Emily Berry – review
Emily Berry has a refreshingly free, not to say incendiary approach to poetryEmily Berry's debut is a treat. She is a new yet anything but hesitant voice. What is stimulating is that she approaches...
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Lucretius, part 7: becoming a god | Emma Woolerton
Lucretius's Epicurean philosophy doesn't deny gods' existence, only that they affect us. Instead, we must aim to be as themLucretius follows a materialist philosophy that denies any purpose to the...
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Poem of the week: Words by Edward Thomas
This loose-limbed lyric on the elemental power of language seems rooted in a distinctly Welsh landscapePoets choose their words with the utmost care, don't they? "The best words in the best order" and...
View ArticleGuardian Books poetry podcast: Imtiaz Dharker reads Elizabeth Bishop, Louis...
Imtiaz Dharker launches our second week of poets choosing their favourite poems with a dazzling trio: One Art by Elizabeth Bishop, Meeting Point by Louis MacNeice and Yeshwant Rao by Arun KolatkarTim Maby
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50 unseen Rudyard Kipling poems discovered
Scholar unearths trove of unpublished work by poet voted Britain's favouriteKipling scholars are celebrating the publication of lost poems by the author whose exhortations in "If" to "keep your head...
View ArticleGuardian Books poetry podcast: Paul Farley reads Patrick Kavanagh
Our series of poets reading favourite works continues with Paul Farley reading 'Innocence' by Patrick KavanaghPaul FarleyTim Maby
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Brighton festival 2013 takes off, with Michael Rosen at helm
Programme for May's three-week arts celebration – released today – will feature Emil and the Detectives, Judith Kerr and Michael Rosen's orchestral work for kids, The Great EnormoEmil and the...
View ArticleGuardian Books poetry podcast: John Burnside reads Maxine Kumin
Today John Burnside chooses The Retrieval System by Maxine Kumin, a look at doubling mirrored in its intricate rhyme schemeJohn BurnsideTim Maby
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