The Coaster: a great poet of the sea

The lines of Fernando Pessoa, a strange and melancholy man, live with me still

Cambridge campaign to rescue Sassoon archive

The university library is desperate to raise £1.25 million to keep the collection of war poems from being lost to America

Sassoon: poetry of strife without reason

This most accessible, and most pivotal, of the war poets still plays a vital role in our understanding of the First World War

Times Literary Walks: Dylan Thomas’s Wales

In the second of our walks, we explore the towns and countryside beloved by the iconic Welsh poet Dylan Thomas

It Moved Me: The poems of William McGonagall

Making poetry accesible and fun are just two of the ways in which the bard has inspired the author through his work

Children interview their new laureate, Anthony Browne

A group of fearless young critics quiz their new champion about primates and picture-books

Relative values: Roger McGough and Izzy

Roger McGough CBE, the Liverpool poet, and his daughter Izzy, an 18-year-old art student, talk about mutual inspiration

'Their stupid gaze is hard to bear'

Unpublished poem by T.S. Eliot reveals his dislike for cows

Christina Hardyment reviews Seamus Heaney's poetry

Why poetry is the hip new way to express yourself

From Michelle Obama to Jerry Hall, poetry is the new hip way to express yourself

The wisest poets, my poppet, don’t give up the day job

It’s much easier to be inspired in the course of normal working life than sitting in front of a blank piece of paper

Wole Soyinka feels sorry for Walcott

The Nigerian poet, playwright, novelist and Nobel prizewinner discusses Barack Obama’s inspirational power, the threat of climate change, and...

Erica Wagner on poetry

True poetry is found not only in books, but everywhere, if you look closely

Oxford poetry post loses its allure

Derek Walcott says he does not want to revisit 'that awful business' after resignation of Ruth Padel as Professor of Poetry

Why poetry won’t keep the wolf from the door

Whoever gets to occupy the Oxford professor’s chair just vacated by Ruth Padel will need other jobs to make ends meet