For Caroline Kennedy’s 50th birthday, several of her close friends presented her with poems to mark the occasion. They understood the significance of poetry in her life, how she learned to understand ...

If the dark nights and bleak days are getting you down, Poetry Pharmacy founder Deborah Alma has treatments available from Philip Larkin, Imtiaz Dharker, Edward Thomas and more ‘Last year is dead, ...

One of the poems in the magazine this week, Edward Hirsch’s “Liberty Brass,” features a jumbled (or, in this case, what I'd call a rotating) refrain. The line “Automatic Screw Machine Products” ...

The greatest villanelle writer of all? ... Dylan Thomas in 1946. Photograph: Francis Reiss/Getty The festival mood on the Books blog this week persuades me this is an auspicious time to present a ...