Enter some text to search. Or just browse.Poetry for children: where do we start? Feature: Annie Fisher gathers together the best children's poetry, and the best children's poetry anthologies A curlew flings its loop of sound Feature: Rowan Bell travels to Amble on the North Sea coast of Northumberland to talk to poet, historian and broadcaster Katrina Porteous A simple tree rooted in a quiet dream Feature: Helena Nelson considers the pros and cons of Tree Poetry The Lies of Owls Feature: 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 Castaway: Christopher Arksey chooses poems from Philip Larkin, Christopher Reid and U.A. Fanthorpe to take to his desert island Ah, bostid is the golden bowel! Feature: Steven Lovatt on ‘Standard English’ poetry and it’s discontents This barter of enthusiasm 8 Feature: Roy Marshall, Kathryn Gray and Mark Antony 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 Feature: Sarah Mnatzaganian gives us a tour of her poetry bookshelf Learning to read with Mallarmé, the most obscure of all poets Feature: Bertrand Marchal discusses why Mallarmé wanted to make poetry so difficult for readers to understand What are poets really after? Feature: Helena Nelson considers the pros and cons of the 'after' epigraph, and discusses the joy of treasure-hunting references, the accessibility (or otherwise) of contemporary poetry, and the necessary art of bluffing There’s space for all of us In Conversation: we talk to Di Slaney of Candlestick Press A lesson for all Feature: Rowan Bell on Paul Piech and Poetry 1 2 3 … 12 ›
