You've heard of the beloved "’Twas the Night Before Christmas" poem—maybe some reinterpretations and parodies of it too. But who actually wrote it, and what inspired these iconic holiday verses?
To celebrate New Year's Eve and New Year's Day we've collected some of our favourite New Year poems, from famous poems such as 'Auld Lang Syne', to lesser-known works about welcoming in the new year.
But is that assumption right? Or has our focus on poems like Owen's distorted our view of the war? Owen is considered one of the greatest war poets, thanks in part to his moving poem Dulce et ...
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“I wrote this after my last visit to [San Pedro Sula in] Honduras, my family’s homeland—my first time there since the pandemic. We were there without my Tía Gloria and my cousin Ela, whom we lost.
We’ve chosen a selection of our favourite Christmas poetry, from funny Christmas poems, to moving festive verses and some Christmas poems for kids, all perfect for reading by the fire over the festive ...
There is no Dutch tradition as cherished as the Sinterklaas poem (well, except perhaps Zwarte Piet). But, what is this mysterious sinterklaasgedicht — and how do you write one? If it’s your first ...
The poems in Invisible Dog draw on five decades of work and five poetry collections, collaboratively selected by the poet and his translator, Richard Gwyn. This is a parallel text, and it’s ...
The trailer features an ominous voice reciting Rudyard Kipling’s poem “Boots,” as read by Taylor Holmes in 1915. The distorted, repetitive rhythm of the poem creates a sense of utter dread, and it ...
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