Yes, a bunch of who-I-am-and-where-I-come-from poems: so far, so typical for a debut. But as with all good poetry, what matters isn’t so much what is said as how it’s said.And here the how ...
Keep scrolling for 25 of the best poetry books of all time and fill your shelves with cultural masterpieces. Published posthumously, Gboyega Odubanjo’s Adam was inspired by a horrifying incident ...
Our Poetry Book of the Month reviews include two invigorating ... once wrote that she did much of her best work in poetry. There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die, the first English ...
Below, Stylist picks five of the most powerful poems in the book, introduced by the women ... the dearest – that I loved the best / Are strange – nay, rather, stranger than the rest’.
most practical advice I’ve heard on how to start reading poetry: “A poem is best read in the light of all the other poems ever written. We read A the better to read B (we have to start ...