began to write some of the great poetry of the year’. Coleridge composed three wonders in fairly quick succession: ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’, ‘Frost at Midnight’ and ‘The Nightingale’. In the ...

Sydney Frost recites Siren Song by Margaret Atwood with ease. With minute hand movements and calculated inflection, her performance of the poem lasts no longer than two minutes, but the room is ...

The role of Spokane poet laureate asks laureates to, putting it plainly, bring poetry to one and all. To do this, laureates ...

Now you’re going to sit in that chair and watch me load the dishwasher my way. And you’re not going to say a single word. So horrible, I heard the news. Well, I heard an echo of the news from ...

And with it, comes an old question: Is this all about a poem? If Henry Wadsworth Longfellow had not focused on Revere in his famous 1861 ode to the midnight ride, would both men stand on equal ...

It’s in the last couple of years that he’s noticed it happening: he’s been a famous rock star for decades, but in these past two years he’s found himself being recognised in public more ...