The poet obsessively collected images of himself, foreshadowing both the good and the bad of today’s selfie culture.
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The poem reveals the mind-numbing conditions and physically exhausting jobs that were relentlessly inflicted on prisoners in Wilde’s day.
Dorcey’s poetry funnelled her activism into a charged critique of traditional Irish life.
Reading and writing poetry, which is anchored in patterns of words, images, sounds and forms, is particularly well suited for people with autism.
It was at Rydal Mount that Wordsworth truly settled, building a ‘writing hut’ and extensively landscaping the grounds to his own design.
Peter Kirkpatrick’s The Wild Reciter is a provocative romp that returns poetry to the Australian people.
Physics and poetry both distil complexity into clarity. Learn how poetic structure can shape and express scientific ideas.
For 50% of people I surveyed, poetry had helped with anxiety and depression during COVID.
Interest in Australian poetry has dipped significantly since ‘The Man from Snowy River’. Why is this? And how can we get it back?
Poetry and palaeontology both work with strata.
These poems express the wonder and complexities of romantic love.
Sylvia Plath’s writing was witty, political, emotional and sharp. A substantial new collection includes more than 50 previously unpublished stories.
In their new collections, Jazz Money and Elfie Shiosaki tackle pressing themes of time, respect and resistance.
It is only by listening to these individual voices that we can really begin to understand what the many millions of Holocaust victims went through.
Cynghanedd, the ancient Welsh art of poetic harmony, weaves rhythm, rhyme and alliteration into intricate patterns.
Where the poetry of David Brooks and Jill Jones intersects is their detailing of domestic life and drawing attention to environmental changes.
Some 500,000 insect species are facing extinction. Poetry, fiction and nonfiction prose can help raise awareness of the essential roles these creatures play in our ecosystems.
The racism Sulter experienced would strongly register in her work, which melded a striking artistic sensibility with anti-colonial politics.
But here’s why poets shouldn’t worry, yet.
AI models can produce poems that rate well on certain ‘metrics’. But the event of reading poetry is not one in which we arrive at standardised outcomes.
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