For centuries, poets have turned to autumn as a mirror for the human condition, a season oscillating between abundance and decline, beauty and loss. In earlier traditions, from Shakespeare to Keats, ...

As I think I might have mentioned previously, May 1 is the official start of summer here in Ireland. And so, three months later August 1, Lughnasadh, is the first day of autumn. Lughnasadh, or Lammas, ...

As part of a series of seasonal conversations and poetry, Todd Moe spoke with Vermont poet David Crews about his poems and their connections to... Oct 18, 2023 — As part of a series of seasonal ...

This week's poem, "The Autumn Outings", is by the Hull-born poet Maurice Rutherford, and comes from his 1994 collection Love is a Four-Letter World, published by the (sadly) no longer trading Peterloo ...

Argentinian poet Alejandra Pizarnik — dead most likely of a Seconal overdose in 1972, a suicide at age thirty-six — entices the reader to try to puzzle out her life through her poems and would be ...

Specimen trees begin to take on autumnal colors at a tree plantation in the Cheshire countryside on Oct. 21, 2013 in Knutsford, United Kingdom. Getty Images Unpack your sweaters and buy some apple ...

Perhaps more suitable for the coffee table than as a poetry book for children, this visually impressive collection has a striking cover with glittering, bronze letters, and contains dazzling ...

There is no doubt that the publication of Derek Mahon's The Poems (1961-2020) (Gallery Press, 536pp, €22.50pb/€35hb) is a major occasion in Irish literature. Bringing together, in their final forms, ...

The seasons have long been a source of inspiration for poets and writers and there are plenty of verses about what's currently going on outside your window - the onset of autumn. For some, October is ...

The day began at 5.45am with a reading of Edward Thomas’s poem in Farming Today. Thomas started writing poetry shortly before he became a soldier in the First World War. He wrote Digging on 4th April ...