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 since ...

Here are the year’s most notable collections of verse as chosen by our poetry columnist. Credit...Photo illustration by Sebastian Mast Supported by By Elisa Gabbert Elisa Gabbert’s collections of ...

It’s National Poetry Month this April. Is it worth celebrating? After all, poetry doesn’t seem to be doing much to alleviate the tension in our communities. Ask some of the middle schoolers I’ve ...

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Last week, This is Just to Say, a short poem by William Carlos Williams went viral. The 82-year-old poem was resurrected as a meme, with Twitter users rewriting lines centering around the central ...

Known to Britons since the late 1970s, Reid (along with Craig Raine) inaugurated so-called ""Martian poetry,"" which sough outlandish, sometimes comic descriptions of ordinary things and events. Reid ...

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