Beowulf is an Anglo-Saxon epic poem about the defeat of Grendel – a creature whose exact form is still debated. Depending on ...

From love poems for her and love poems for him to words exploring issues of unity and injustice, gender and race, the best poem books explore all aspects of life.

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Musicians have long taken inspiration from poetry for their work; here are four rock songs that pull from well-known poems.

He really liked this girl in their school, he said, and wanted to write her a love letter ... He would later write love poems of his own (most of which he never delivered). And move on from ...

Did Shakespeare get it wrong? Is life's basic question "to smile or not to smile," rather than "to be or not to be"?

It’s 8am in the morning in San Francisco and the 82-year-old Isabel Allende has already received two emails from readers asking for advice. “People write to me all the time saying they have diaries ...

MacAskill is the author of three previously published poetry collections, including Shadow Blight , winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for poetry in 2022. Her fiction has previously ...

When I was a ninth-grader growing up in Encanto, I used to struggle with poems that just wouldn’t work out. After a whole day ...

“I love you my sweet granddaughter Xiomara. Thank you for making me a REAL ‘Grandma D.’” Her oldest sister, Dallas Lovato, ...