Leading black British poets including Linton Kwesi Johnson, Grace Nichols and Raymond Antrobus share their thoughts on protest, change and the trailblazers who...
53 months ago

Benjamin Zephaniah, an author, professor and poet whose work, infused with strong social messages, helped inspire a generation of British poets to find their...
11 months ago

The poems have struck a chord on Twitter for their evocative descriptions of the changes wrought by covid-19 | Culture.
52 months ago

The story of Macmillan's marketing and its advertising of a 'GOLDEN TREASURY SERIES' of volumes is not just a...
17 months ago

A new English course, The Tortured Poets Department, introduces students to 18th- and 19th-century lyric poetry through the music of Taylor Swift,...
5 days ago

A companion to 1998's The Fire People, Kayo Chingonyi's anthology creates a space for a new generation of voices to express the wide range of their work.
30 months ago

British poetry is really as energetic and varied as its American counterpart.
40 months ago

British poets have long inspired composers with their words. We pick out some of the best classical songs to have taken inspiration from poetry.
38 months ago

From William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes, male authors have long collaborated in pairs – and the tradition is now...
92 months ago

(By Samar Attar). Many times I have asked myself how can I concentrate on the British Romantic Poets when people in Syria, the country of my...
127 months ago