Milton’s epic recounts a revolt against Heaven. Readers from Thomas Jefferson to Malcolm X have drawn their own lessons from ...

Reading Frost requires a kind of modesty and curiosity. Coming to this modesty has been a big part of my own experience with him. At first, I was reading a lot of the poems and thinking, This is dumb.

Harriet Martineau was a feminist, social reformer and a leading 19th-century thinker who advised women on a healthy home lifestyle ...

George Szirtes remembers Martin Bell, whom he met as a student, and his ‘Collected Poems’ that glitter with laughter and ...

The full programme for Lyra – Bristol Poetry Festival 2025 has now been announced, with the festival set to make a welcome return on April 25 and run until May 4. As an organisation, their aim is “to ...