These fifteen short poems pay tribute to women who inspire with their strength, tenderness, and unwavering love. Verses that ...

How much do we enjoy a love poem? Let us count the ways. Love poems and sonnets that plumb the depths of emotion have the power to change perspectives, move us to tears and express thoughts where our ...

Who doesn't like being romanced every now and again? It's the little things that count, and what better way to show a little love than by sending short love poems to that special person in your life?

As a festival in London celebrates the art of love poetry, Lucy Scholes discovers how writers around the world express emotions through verse. Love, as we all know, is a many-splendoured thing. Quite ...

William Shakespeare and Romantic poets Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron are among those who have long reigned over the throne of romantic poetry. The poetry team at the Southbank Centre had been ...

Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the natural world and the human condition? Think again.

What would an acorn write to an oak tree? Or a coat to her button? A child to his toes? A pebble to the river? Dear Acorn, ...

April is Poetry Month, a painful reminder for some, who suffered under English teachers who made them write about the cherry tree wearing white for Eastertide or “The Love Song of J. Alfred Pruneface” ...

Meena Kumari's flirtations with the pen are as seductive as her on-screen persona and now fans have an opportunity to know about the poet in her with a book containing a compelling selection of her ...