I’m writing this column in the earliest days of another spring, and here’s a fine spring poem from Rose King’s book “Time and Peonies,” from Hummingbird Press. The poet lives in California. a man in a ...

A.E. Housman (1859–1936) had a talent — perhaps the greatest in the history of English poetry — for making difficult verse look simple, as the Sun pointed out when Housman’s “When I Was One-and-Twenty ...

Poet laureate celebrates a plum tree in poem commissioned by the National Trust for its blossom campaign The poet laureate, Simon Armitage, has written a new poem which pays homage to spring, in ...