February is National Haiku Writing Month. The website nahaiwrimo.com urges us to write one haiku a day for the month of February. "Why February? Because it’s the shortest month, for the world’s ...

Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Rossetti and Zephaniah have all followed. Now, poet laureate and Yorkshireman Simon Armitage – has ...

Soulton Hall, a historic Tudor country house with literary connections, will host an immersive reading of the epic Middle ...

The First Year is an original poem by Chimwemwe Undi, winner of the 2024 Governor General's Literary Award for poetry. It is ...

A new National Poetry Centre, spearheaded by Professor of Poetry and Poet Laureate Simon Armitage, is to receive a ...

Fazal Baloch's translation, In Every Verse for You, carries Balochi poet Mubarak Qazi’s poetic fire across languages.

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts may have a better right than any other state to call itself “the poetry state.” Celebrated poets from Emily Dickinson and Ralph Waldo Emerson to Elizabeth Bishop and ...

The government has pledged £5m in support of the National Poetry Centre’s new home in Leeds.

"We all engage in small and large acts of translation every day," she said of her work as a Haitian-born writer in "a city of immigrants" and "a nation of immigrants." ...

Poet laureate Simon Armitage has welcomed the news that the government is investing £5m into the development of the National ...

The New Mehak Cultural Forum in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture, Government of India, organised a mushiara at the ...

Weather permitting, Hot Springs poet Samantha Youngs will be the featured poet at Wednesday Night Poetry at Kollective Coffee ...