Her poems read, at their best, like illuminations, transfiguring her life again and again. SH There Lives a Young Girl In Me ...

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 ...

“For a long time,” writes Kathleen Jamie in her afterword to The Keelie Hawk (Picador £12.99), “I’ve wanted to write a suite ...

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’.

Every word of a good book matters, not just the poems; think of Eliot’s notes to The Waste Land. Rhizodont is a good book, mostly, but its 30-plus pages of notes read strangely like stilted ...

By Karl Kirchwey Karl Kirchwey’s eighth book of poems, “Good Apothecary,” will be published this year. He teaches in the M.F.A. program in creative writing at Boston University, where he ...

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 ...