Poetry is rising in popularity in the UK as social media drives an unexpected renaissance in the often overlooked genre. Last year, sales of poetry books reached £14.4 million – their highest ...

Heather Christie’s poetry has been published in the US since 2009, but it was only in 2019 that she was published in the UK, with her second collection The Trees The Trees. Christie, who was ...

Some people (academics perhaps) might think it rather sentimental to describe poems as ‘friends’, yet when poetry sustains your emotional life you know it’s true. The Poetry Exchange is a ...

A collection of some of Clanchy’s students’ poems, titled England: Poems from a School, is set to be published by Picador on 14 June. All of the young poets featured in the slim book are from ...

Grown men aren't supposed to cry. Anthony Holden and Ben Holden introduce a selection of poems that haunt a host of eminent men, from their new anthology in association with Amnesty International; ...

Sadly, Eric Wallis passed away in 2010 after a short illness and there appears to be no records of who were the authors of these five poems. No names are attached to the wall and Plymouth City Council ...

Award-winning performance poet, author and former Children’s Laureate Joseph Coelho creates an acrostic poem live throughout the programme inspired by contributions from schools across the UK.

Millions of schoolchildren may be rejoicing that poetry can be dropped for GCSEs in England because of the coronavirus disruption. But could they be missing out in the long-run? Here are seven ...

A writer who won one of the world's most prestigious poetry competitions has recalled how she "blanked out" when she was told the news. Imogen Wade's poem, based on her real-life experience of ...