While those poets laid much of the groundwork for poetry, it’s important that we read the living and breathing contemporary poets creating work today. Poetry often invites us to explore the more ...

For their first episode together, recorded in 2017, Mark Ford and Seamus Perry look at the life and work of Philip Larkin, a poet written about extensively in the archive of the London Review of Books ...

Seamus Perry and Mark Ford look at the life and work of Charlotte Mew, who brought the Victorian art of dramatic monologue into the 20th century, and whose difficult experiences are often refracted ...

A new map is being drawn, and 100 contemporary world poets are taking over. However, the qualifier ‘world’ in the book’s subtitle baffles me as a critic and a poet. Anyone can have their own ...

Contemporary poets offer hints to help the wary unlock ... The Nation's Favourite Poet Patrick Neate has the lowdown on the UK live poetry circuit Watch Basement Jaxx's version of The Pied Piper ...

Presented by hip-hop star Akala, Poetry: Between the Lines features contemporary poets including Jackie Kay, Gillian Clarke and Ciaran Carson, in conversation with Akala about some of their best ...

A new map is being drawn, and 100 contemporary world poets are taking over. However, the qualifier ‘world’ in the book’s subtitle baffles me as a critic and a poet. Anyone can have their own ...

Another fellow poet, Gerry Cambridge said: "A sad loss to UK poetry, & a genuinely magnificent writer in his best—& it is abundant—work." Longley, who holds an honorary doctorate from Queen's ...