Poetry for children: where do we start?
Annie Fisher gathers together the best children's poetry, and the best children's poetry anthologies
Annie Fisher gathers together the best children's poetry, and the best children's poetry anthologies
Rowan Bell travels to Amble to talk to poet, historian and broadcaster Katrina Porteous
Helena Nelson considers the pros and cons of Tree Poetry
Rebecca Ferrier explores truth, doubt, and lies in poetry, and looks at how poems can act as windows into our past selves
Christopher Arksey chooses poems by Philip Larkin, Christopher Reid and U.A. Fanthorpe to take to his desert island
Steven Lovatt on dialect poetry
Roy Marshall, Kathryn Gray and Mark Anthony Owen choose poems by Suzannah Evans, James Fenton and Connie Bensley
Sarah Mnatzaganian gives us a tour of her poetry bookshelf
Bertrand Marchal discusses why Mallarmé wanted to make poetry so difficult for readers to understand
Helena Nelson considers the pros and cons of the ‘after’ epigraph, poetry’s exclusive codes, and the necessary art of bluffing
We talk to Di Slaney of Candlestick Press about about publishing poetry that appeals to non-poets, whether poetry should be able to pay for itself, and the joy of wonky animals
Rowan Bell on Ukrainian-American graphic artist Paul Peter Piech and his bold illustrations of poetry