It is the final song in Les nuits d’été, the cycle by Berlioz, which sets six poems of Gautier. They were friends and ...

Across different creaturely encounters, meetings with poets, and some of the most vivid poems about animals ever written ( including Ted Hughes’ ‘The Thought-Fox’ William Blake’s ‘The ...

The voices in the poems belong to both people and animals noted the panel of judges, identifying the poet’s forte as lying in her “penetrating portrayals of human situations with all their ...

Looking for strange, alien and misunderstood things in the world around us can help find the wonder that inspires poetry, ...