When Eddie Jordan's widow, Marie, spotted a friend beginning to cry when they met before the start, she scolded him gently.

A global search is underway for the best ones, with the New York based Society of Classical Poets launching its annual Haiku Competition. Evan Mantyk is Editor & President of the Society and joined ...

Death does not kill alone/Nor does he fight singly/He goes to war with plenty of warriors…/He sends Disease first/He sends ...

In the stillness of dawn, just as the sun began to stretch its light across the sky, my grandmother would already be rising ...

The first poem in Volcano, Eunice de Souza’s collected poems, “Catholic Mother”, which appeared in her debut collection, Fix, ...

The lines above are from Professor Bade Ajuwon’s, ‘Ogun’s Iremoje: A Philosophy of Living and Dying’, taken from Sandra ...

Matthew Arnold’s poems often reflect our search for meaning in life. Arnold’s best buddy at Rugby School and later at Oxford ...

The reliably accomplished John Niven’s latest novel is The Fathers (Canongate), a witty account of parenthood and masculinity ...

What is three lines of usually un-rhymed words totalling 17 syllables - 5 on first line, 7 in second line then 5 again in the last line? The answer of course? A Haiku poem. And a global search is ...

Had Oliver Wendell Holmes not felt the patriotic pride that led to his writing of this inspiring poem, the USS Constitution ...

Bentley would publish his first collection of clerihews Biography for Beginners in 1905, which included what is widely ...

Delhi chief minister Rekha Gupta on the ‘triple-engine government’ in Delhi, being a woman politician with no political ...