From love poems for her and love poems for him to words exploring issues of unity and injustice, gender and race, the best poem books explore all aspects of life.

Duffy uses the metaphor of an onion to describe the complexity of love in her poem 'Valentine'. "Not a red rose or a satin heart. I give you an onion." On the face of it, Carol Ann Duffy’s ...

In it, the speaker takes a carriage ride with personified death, who appears not as a menacing reaper but a "kindly" driver ...

When poet Vivian Bolan takes on the challenge of writing a poem about becoming older, we see how the memories of her childhood, her late father, and her rocky relationship with her mother have ...