Poetry
Hill of Doors by Robin Robertson - review
A collection full of flinty beauty uses Christian and classical fable to explore the divided nature of humans Robin Robertson has taken the epigram for his fifth collection from the French painter/poet Francis Picabia , who reminds us that "the greate
Children's author Jez Alborough on his love of rhyme
Rhyming gives language a playfulness that makes kids love books, says Jez Alborough.
Children's author Jez Alborough on his love of rhyme
Rhyming gives language a playfulness that makes kids love books, says Jez Alborough.
The Retrieval System - Maxine Kumin
The sixth collection of poems for Maxine Kumin speaks of the ways in which some sense of lost loved ones is retrieved in the features of present-day things.Guardian Books poetry podcast: John Burnside reads Maxine Kumin
Today John Burnside chooses The Retrieval System by Maxine Kumin, a look at doubling mirrored in its intricate rhyme scheme John Burnside Tim MabyGuardian Books poetry podcast: Imtiaz Dharker reads Elizabeth Bishop, Louis MacNeice and Arun Kolatkar
Imtiaz Dharker launches our second week of poets choosing their favourite poems with a dazzling trio: One Art by Elizabeth Bishop, Meeting Point by Louis MacNeice and Yeshwant Rao by Arun Kolatkar Tim Maby
Poem of the week: Words by Edward Thomas
This loose-limbed lyric on the elemental power of language seems rooted in a distinctly Welsh landscape Poets choose their words with the utmost care, don't they? " The best words in the best order " and all that? In this week's poem, "Words", Edward Th
In Secret: Versions of Yannis Ritsos - Yannis Ritsos, David Harsent
Winner Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation Winter 2012. Yannis Ritsos (1909 - 1990) is one of Greece's finest and most celebrated poets, and was nine times nominated for a Nobel Prize. Louis Aragon called him 'the greatest poet of our age'. He wro
The Echo Chamber: The Body
Adventures in strong language and the best of new poetry, introduced by Paul Farley.