By exploring the lives, opinions and deaths of a variety of famous ... of the Poets by Michael Symmons Roberts and Paul Farley is Book of the Week at 09:45 and 00:30 every day this week and ...

Poetry always remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. It remembers that it was first song." To that end, and to celebrate National Poetry Day ... No list of famous poems ...

has continued in Urdu poetry to this day. One of the great beneficiaries of this influence was Allama Iqbal, the poet with whom Modern Poetry of Pakistan opens, widely considered the visionary who ...

Shuntaro Tanikawa, one of the most celebrated Japanese modern poets who pushed the boundaries of the genre, died on Nov. 13. He was 92. While his poems have been translated into many foreign ...