Closely aligned to the theme of romantic love is that of desire, and across the centuries poets have written about the ...

By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

Frost’s approachable verse and appealing rural subjects brought him legions of admirers. His personal life was shot through ...

Many a couple has enjoyed a midnight kiss at New Year. That’s Liz Lochhead’s inspiration for View of Scotland/Love Poem. The poem combines Lochhead’s memories of Hogmanay in the 1950s and a ...

I have met so many good people of Petersburg, and I love the great possibilities that the city has on the horizon' ...