When now-poet laureate Simon Armitage retired from the Probation Service, his dad was “a bit miffed”. “I went into probation because my dad was a probation officer,” Armitage tells Big Issue. “He was ...

The British sunk their claws into Hong Kong in stages. In 1842 they colonised Hong Kong island; 1860 saw the seizure of the Kowloon peninsula, and in 1898, the British took out a 99-year lease on ...

But people really do make pronouncements like that about literature. Someone I met a few years ago, a big poetry person, just could not believe that an adult would spend years of his life thinking ...

In 1994, Australian poet Dorothy Porter published a book unlike any other: Monkey's Mask, a lesbian crime novel written in verse. The genre-bending book was a bestseller and was later adapted for ...

But clues can be found in the figure of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, an Italian poet who, in the early 20th century, founded the Futurist movement and later contributed to the founding of fascism.

Navigate your way into this beautiful art form with this list of the most famous poems ever written. What jumps into your mind when you think of the most famous poems ever written? Shakespearean ...

At a loss for words? Poetry expresses the feelings we struggle to convey. Open any poetry book for proof: You’ll find love poems for romantic moments, silly rhymes for kids and limericks for ...