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 ...

My favourite episode from Monty Python's Flying Circus features a trio of inept Spanish Inquisitors charging a little old lady with heresy. She doesn't understand, is pummelled with soft pillows, and ...

A framed poster of a stamp depicting Langston Hughes, who wrote some of the best poems in American history. Poetry provides the perfect way to indulge in the escapism of reading without the commitment ...

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.

Twitter alerted me to a new poem by Ada Limón called “The End of Poetry,” which feels like the perfect poem to celebrate the 31st installment of this daily column. To still the beating hearts of loyal ...

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 ...