I want to live a beautiful life but I can’t help but notice there is something fundamentally disgusting about it all.” ...

The subject line of the email said, "What if..." Editor Amos Bridges explains how a weekly column about poetry found a place ...

Life is full of painful events. Has this year been difficult? For some, even many, the answer might be a resounding, “Yes!” ...

Isabella Cotier By A.O. Scott Let’s talk about love. That’s what the people in this poem seem to be doing. The author and her friend, a scholar, are debating the crushworthiness of a certain ...

“When I was in high school, for example, there was this radio program in which a lot of young people used to go to the radio station and just read either our poems or the poems that we liked ...

George has established an international reputation, having published thirteen full-length collections of poetry. The themes of his work are topical, contemporary and respond to current affairs across ...

Rasmus Hojlund ruthlessly mocked Kyle Walker with a poem on social media following Manchester United's dramatic victory over Manchester City. Man United secured a famous win over Man City at the ...

“L’hippopotame” appears in an 1838 collection. A wonderful poem it is. For three stanzas, it seems to be a rather whimsical poem about exotic animals. In the fourth and final ...

Most of us were thrilled at the release of the 28 Years Later trailer starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Jodie Comer, that was until its chosen backing track – a poem called Boots by Rudyard ...

Today we launch The Telegraph’s fifth annual poetry competition, and the theme this year is – a drumroll, please – “time”. As ever, the contest is open to all, and free (but note the T ...

The poem was brief—just a few stanzas—and, at the time, anonymously authored. Originally titled “Account of a Visit From St. Nicholas,” the poem told the tale of a father’s encounter ...