The War Poems are a daily witnessing of the pain and suffering of two nations. After waking to the news of the Israeli massacre by Hamas on October 7th, I had great difficulty expressing my pain, ...

Hollie McNish talks about her new poetry collection, Virgin, which explores the damaging power of this word and asks for a broader understanding of its possibilities. Her readings on today's programme ...

The American poet Alfred Nicol (b. 1956) is the author of such collections as “Animal Psalms” and “Elegy for Everyone,” and one of the nation’s best translators. In 2022 he published “100 Visions of ...

The Kootenai County man wanted to tell the stories of the Vietnam War from the standpoint of those who were there. He wanted ...

Luka Poljak has made the 2025 CBC Poetry Prize longlist for 2000: 5 Years after the War, my Father Buys a Vinyl Record. My ...

Britain's poet laureate published an anti-war poem Thursday titled "Regime Change," in which death moves through Iraq, destroying historic sites. The 22-line poem by Andrew Motion is largely cast as a ...

THIS is a very moving and interesting collection of verse by a number of young English poets. It is revealing to find from this, and other collections, how many of the young people who are fighting ...

Sara Teasdale (1884–1933), an American lyric poet, was the author of nine volumes of poetry published between 1907 and the year of her death. Though her poems frequently appear in anthologies for ...

Our critic A.O. Scott marvels at the power and paradox of a sonnet by Gwendolyn Brooks. Isabella Cotier By A.O. Scott Here’s a poem about patience, about self-control, about the need to conserve your ...