Tom Emanuel receives funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). If you have read The Lord of the Rings, there is a good chance that you skipped over one or more of the 75 songs and ...

In the author photo for “Time Will Tell,” his newly collected poems, David Middleton greets readers with a pen in his left ...

The Contents. In An Autobiographical Foreword* the poet (whose personality is probably better known to a larger number of more diverse audiences than that of any other living American bard) devotes 28 ...

This resonant and comprehensive retrospective of Valentine (Shirt in Heaven), who died in 2020, celebrates the poet’s visceral, spiritual, and uncanny writing. There is solace to be found in Valentine ...

It would be impossible for me to write impartially about Michael Gizzi’s newly published Collected Poems. I became acquainted with Michael and his poetry when I was twenty. It would be impossible for ...

I’ll admit I came to “The Collected Poems of Delmore Schwartz” (Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, $50) with some trepidation. James Atlas’ masterful biography “Delmore Schwartz: The Life of an American Poet ...

How would you describe your style of poetry? While I tend not to compartmentalize my poetry into one particular style, I try to have an equal blend of the artistic and academic while maintaining a ...

From Seamus Heaney’s collected poems and Simon Armitage’s animal spirits, to prizewinners Karen Solie and Vidyan Ravinthiran Many of 2025’s most notable collections have been powered by a spirit of ...

New York: Boni and Liveright. 1925. 12mo. viii+304 pp. $2.50. by W. H. Davies, decorated with woodcuts by Stephen Bone. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. 12mo. vi+71 pp. $2.00. COMPARISONS are ...

A framed poster of a stamp depicting Langston Hughes, who wrote some of the best poems in American history. Poetry provides the perfect way to indulge in the escapism of reading without the commitment ...