In addition to love poems for him and her, you’ll find sad poems alongside funny poems, as well as short poems amid excerpts ...

Despite the undertone of madness, it is one of the most lucid poems about sadness and loneliness I have ever come across. It also belies simplistic judgments about mental illness. I love the ...

In her third column installment, Burtner draws on Sylvia Plath’s ‘sad girl poetry’ to understand the political madness of ...

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

We present an extract from The Irish Writers Handbook 2025, the essential guide to writing and getting published, with ...

You can read Minneapolis poet Danez Smith’s work in two new books or, if you happen to be in New York, on subway walls.

"Maybe religion’s not so bad," he concluded with yet another dismal rhyme, "To keep you from being sad ... last November's ...

What I love about poetry is that you can perform ... Is it a happy poem or a sad poem? Is it an angry poem or a confused poem? Thinking about emotions in this way can help make the meaning of ...

An imagined chat with Pooh commemorates the 100th anniversary of A.A. Milne’s “When We Were Very Young.” “Pooh,” I said, ...

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