Danger leaps from off the page
Annie Fisher looks at some of the best new poetry collections for children
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Nine tradesmen and a beaver
Edward Wakeling introduces 'The Hunting of the Snark' by Lewis Carroll
Castaway Companions
Castaway Poet Roy Marshall chooses poems by David Jones, Paul Batchelor and John Donne
But is it art?
Rowan Bell on the art of Tracey Emin and the poetry of Billy Childish
Poetry for children: where do we start?
Annie Fisher gathers together the best children's poetry, and the best children's poetry anthologies
A curlew flings its loop of sound
Rowan Bell travels to Amble to talk to poet, historian and broadcaster Katrina Porteous
A simple tree rooted in a quiet dream
Helena Nelson considers the pros and cons of Tree Poetry
The Lies of Owls
Rebecca Ferrier explores truth, doubt, and lies in poetry, and looks at how poems can act as windows into our past selves
New, hopeful arrangements
Christopher Arksey chooses poems by Philip Larkin, Christopher Reid and U.A. Fanthorpe to take to his desert island
Ah, bostid is the golden bowel!
Steven Lovatt on dialect poetry
This barter of enthusiasm 8
Roy Marshall, Kathryn Gray and Mark Anthony Owen choose poems by Suzannah Evans, James Fenton and Connie Bensley
To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life
Sarah Mnatzaganian gives us a tour of her poetry bookshelf