Modern Poetry of Pakistan offers many offshoots of the classical ... and gives his poems a decidedly popular Marxist-Socialist character. On the other, he reinterprets the imagery and language of ...

Between the Lines features contemporary poets including Jackie Kay, Gillian Clarke and Ciaran Carson, in conversation with Akala about some of their best-loved poems. Featured texts include ...

Mark and Seamus turn to the life and work of Adrienne Rich, in whose poems the personal becomes not only political, but epic. This episode is from series two of Modern-ish Poets. To listen to series ...

A new map is being drawn, and 100 contemporary world poets are taking over. However, the qualifier ‘world’ in the book’s subtitle baffles me as a critic and a poet. Anyone can have their own ...

Mark and Seamus look to that great poet of winter and snow, Wallace Stevens, considering his anecdote-proof life, the capitalist economy of his imagination, and his all-American poetry of precise ...

Shuntaro Tanikawa, one of the most celebrated Japanese modern poets who pushed the boundaries ... featuring Snoopy and his friends, remain popular. Tanikawa was a versatile literary figure and ...

Between the Lines features contemporary poets including Jackie Kay, Gillian Clarke and Ciaran Carson, in conversation with Akala about some of their best-loved poems. These clips are from the BBC ...

New to Radio 4 Extra, Daljit Nagra selects the best programmes from the BBC's ... Sharon Olds is one of America's leading contemporary poets, the author of many collections of poetry and the ...