What jumps into your mind when you think of the most famous poems ever written? Shakespearean love poems? Something longer ...

Nikki Giovanni, trailblazing poet and voice of the Black experience, dies at 81 in Virginia, but one poem remains a powerful ...

Wilfred Owen wrote the first draft of his most famous work in the autumn of 1917 while recovering from shell-shock in a Scottish hospital. Completed in 1918, the poem includes horrific ...

The poem is about the loss of a beloved friend ... speech without realising they’re actually quoting one of the most famous British writers. Image caption, Two roads diverged in a wood, and ...

Among Rossetti’s best known poems is this short work about one of the plants most associated with the Christmas season. Our idea of what Santa Claus looks like comes from a variety of places ...

Each poem has been selected by an incredible woman ... the dearest – that I loved the best / Are strange – nay, rather, stranger than the rest’. Then, after all the noise, the pain and ...

The perk of being the judge for the anthology Best New Zealand Poems 2024 is that I am being sent all the books of poetry written this year. That may sound like hell to you, and it is, but I am like a ...