Over the last half-century, British poets including Philip Larkin and Andrew Motion have driven a "lawnmower poetry ...

Scientists studied more than 700 ancient Chinese poems that mention the Yangtze finless porpoise to determine its population ...

The study, published today in Critical Quarterly, argues that the tradition goes back to the 17th-century poet Andrew Marvell who used mowing – with a ...

Ancient Chinese poetry is often nonfiction, including first-person accounts of everyday life and observations of nature ... A fisherman or hunter, for example, is a more reliable observer than ...

A champion self-advertiser, maven of the brag and the humblebrag, Whitman announces in the first pages of Specimen ...

Cardoso worked for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority for 30 years, affording him a special perspective of the city's ...

In New York, David Nolan Gallery presents a centennial exhibition on the pioneering artist, poet, and gardener Ian Hamilton ...

Definition' is a striking example of how a list poem can transcend mere categorisation and become a vessel for memory, ...

What was the Celtic concept of the afterlife, and why was it so similar to the concept of the Isles of the Blessed from Greek mythology?

The nub of being poet laureate seems to be being asked what the point is of being poet laureate’ - THE SATURDAY INTERVIEW: ...