Once, poetry was ink spilling spontaneously and consciously onto parchment, then wrapped in the folds of intimacy, passed ...

In Daily Beast, Michael Weiss writes about Auden’s political poems and why the poet renounced them: “As early as 1941, the poet had come to renounce some of his most celebrated work from the ...

Decades later, Heaney worked through competing calls for political engagement and his long-lapsed Catholicism in ‘Station Island’, a poem he described as an ‘exorcism’. A dreamlike reworking of ...

In a contextual way, the simmering, inventive, and significant poems in Jeet Thayil’s latest poetry collection I’ll Have It ...

Instead, the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives turned to a poem that has become a cornerstone of Israeli verse: “I Have No Other Country,” written by poet Ehud Manor and recorded in ...

The Brixton-based charity has run programmes including, Mandem, Lets Talk, helping young boys to express themselves through poetry.

In the first episode of their new Close Readings series on political poetry, Seamus Perry and Mark Ford look at ‘An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland’ by Andrew Marvell, described by ...

He sent her the poem, “I have no other country,” and ... a song to soothe a crisis of faith in one’s country, whatever one’s political colors. The Israeli left used it to grieve the ...