Michael Korda writes a beautiful book in remembrance of the World War I poets whose work he loved. We hope you’re enjoying ...

Robert Graves (1895 -1985) placed his poetry far above his prose ... of his early life including the time during the First World War when he was so badly wounded at the Somme that The Times ...

Chief among the insights we gain from reading history is that what we read is often relevant to what we are experiencing ...

A new translation of "The Iliad" pairs well with Ukranian war poetry and a documentary on its suffering people.

Friendship poems to celebrate your bestie Birthdays are fantastic occasions, but who says you can’t celebrate friendship any ...

It is easy to assume that the powerful words of this young man from Shropshire captured the true experience of the war. But is that assumption right? Or has our focus on poems like Owen's ...

The film rebuts that idea with a quote from Charles Bukowski, "Poetry is what happens when nothing else can." That does not ...

Poets have been writing about death since the beginning of the written word, and it’s no wonder their poems often appear at ...

One of the Canadians killed in action early in the First World War inspired Lt.-Col. John McCrae – a Canadian doctor and ...

Is it for some burial place, vast and dry? Is it to wet the soil of graves? This poem is written in free verse. Try writing your own free verse poem. It doesn't have to rhyme or use a structure ...

Names such as WH Auden, Philip Larkin and Robert ... Graves had criticised the role and spent most of his time in Majorca. Getty Images Stevie Smith was not a popular choice with the poetry ...