Poetry was a common motif in The Lord of the Rings. Poems had both emotional and practical applications. The importance of poetry in Middle-earth stemmed from J. R. R. Tolkien's background. Poems ...

The poems in Invisible Dog draw on five decades of work and five poetry collections, collaboratively selected by the poet and his translator, Richard Gwyn. This is a parallel text, and it’s ...

Is heavy on my chest. This apparently Plath-like verse was produced by GPT3.5 in response to the prompt “write a short poem in the style of Sylvia Plath”. The stanza hits the key points ...

We’ve chosen a selection of our favourite Christmas poetry, from funny Christmas poems, to moving festive verses and some Christmas poems for kids, all perfect for reading by the fire over the festive ...

“A Visit From St. Nicholas” is the beginning of modern Christmas, a manuscript specialist at Christie’s said. By James Barron Good morning. It’s Friday. Today we’ll look at a copy of ...

A recent peer-reviewed study published in Nature Scientific Reports and reported on in NewScientist suggests that, in general, humans cannot distinguish between human-written poetry and poems ...

There is no Dutch tradition as cherished as the Sinterklaas poem (well, except perhaps Zwarte Piet). But, what is this mysterious sinterklaasgedicht — and how do you write one? If it’s your first ...

Ford peeks into the mind of Elizabeth Bishop as her obsessions—maps, moons, animals, oil, gasoline, colors—appear again and again in her poems. Shot Through with Brightness: The Poems of H. D. by ...

The 2016 National Poet for Scotland was born in Edinburgh in 1961 and grew up in Glasgow. She has written all her life, and several of her adult poetry collections have won or been shortlisted for ...

After teaching at Wabash College for two years, he travelled abroad to Spain, Italy, and London, where, as the literary executor of the scholar Ernest Fenellosa, he became interested in Japanese and ...