The BBC is launching a nationwide search to find a British poem to rival Wordsworth's Daffodils or Kipling's If. It aims to come up with a winning entry which will reflect modern Britain and be ...

Writer Matt Hoisch, who has spent nearly a year interviewing poets for a project, describes the public good that comes from ...

with poems that need no explanation — and then if you look more deeply into them you might find some surprises and marvels as writing an “easy” poem usually is far from easy. Robert Frost ...

I didn’t live through the Christmas of 1929, but growing up in Nogales, the border was always there—constant, imposing, ...

These ideas are important because you came up with them yourself based on what the poem was telling you, so make a quick note of them before you try to find out what other people thought of the piece!