’ ve been on the road for a couple of weeks, giving readings from my new book of poems, Dwell. A few years ago I bumped into Tim Smit in a pub in Yorkshire. We started talking about some of the ...

Our poetry editor recommends collections that revel in nature, family life, hard work and language. By Gregory Cowles If we’re being honest here, a true starter pack of modern American poetry ...

Mr. Longley in 2024 at an event in Belfast, Northern Ireland, observing World Poetry Day. “A number of his poems are not much more than four lines,” said the poet Paul Muldoon, a longtime friend.

Well, a new study in the US has found that readers can’t tell the difference between poems written by famous poets and those manufactured by AI, with the bots aping the style of human creatives.

A poet laureate, William Wordsworth remains one of the most popular romantic poets. To celebrate his birthday, here are 10 of William Wordsworth’s most famous poems that you should read.

Artists and poets have long been inspired by the mathematical patterns found in nature—for instance, the remarkable fact that a sunflower's seeds follow the Fibonacci sequence. But there are ...

Charles Darwin’s Grandfather Was Famous for His Poems About Plant Sex Erasmus Darwin’s poetics influenced his grandson’s vision of nature Kat Eschner December 12, 2017 ...

Arguably Burns’ most famous poem of all, Tam o’Shanter was first published in 1791 and tells the story of a drunken Scot who has a supernatural encounter while riding home from a late-night ...

Voices Comment Nature Studies: The decline and fall of the nightingale, poetry’s most famous bird Experienced at night, its song is one of life’s most magical experiences Michael McCarthy ...

Lockwood is famous—more than thirty thousand people follow her on Twitter—but the source of her fame is almost entirely owing to her tweets and not to her poetry.