Tuesday marks the close of National Poetry Month, a 30-day celebration of all things versified and all people versifying. And in tangentially related news, for more than eight months, a book of ...

For more than 150 years, children have been captivated by the tale of The Owl And The Pussy-Cat and their adventures in a 'beautiful pea-green boat'. But now trans rights campaigners have renamed ...

Canonised as one of Urdu’s greatest poets, Mir Muhammad Taqi “Mir” of Delhi, who died in 1810, also authored a collection of verse in Persian. He composed verse in genres other than the ghazal, in ...

This week’s guest on Poetry from Daily Life is Marilyn Singer, who divides her time between Brooklyn, New York and Washington, Connecticut. This is Marilyn’s second column in the series. Her first ...

Ernest Hemingway once said that a cat has absolute emotional honesty: Human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not. So Hemingway might have appreciated ...

Cat lovers will likely embrace Crawley's rhyming verse, which addresses feline types and idiosyncrasies with unapologetic adoration. Illustrations of cats, identified with such exotic captions as ...

PJ Harvey paid tribute to one of her biggest influences, Captain Beefheart, by reading some of his poetry at a London art gallery a couple of weeks ago. The singer posted a video from the event to her ...