If we read Ditlevsen’s poems through the lens of Lessing, you could say that Ditlevsen’s so-called sentimentality is a poetic anachronism that functions as a subversive tool, an anachronism on a par ...

It is an anthem for the ages. An iconic song that has inspired people around the world for decades. But no one more than the singer who brought it to life: the legendary Gloria Gaynor.

That’s how it feels to me: running headlong into a kind of energy, hoping that the voice of this poem will fly. Though it flops down over and over again, you keep running into that wind with the ...

On to our four runners-up – which you can read below.’ These poems daringly whisked the reader across space and time. Malcolm Watson’s dazzlingly clever “Red Shift” has a punning title ...

Were you expecting a package that never arrived? A present, maybe? A birthday card? If it was shipped via the United States Postal Service, chances are it’s in Atlanta. Or at least it was ...

Just over two years ago, a friend of mine died in their sleep ... is the only thing I have left. You'll probably have heard the Henry Scott Holland poem about death, where he says he's "only ...

Ed Miliband has been warned he is throwing away “a valuable national resource” after ministers confirmed plans to bury Britain’s massive stockpile of plutonium. The Energy Secretary was ...

Our critic A.O. Scott shows you what he loves about it. Isabella Cotier By A.O. Scott Poems aren’t pictures, but sometimes they try to make us see, and to make us feel in ways we might associate ...