Poetweet: Now you can turn your tweets into a poem (just don't expect...
A new website lets you convert your Twitter history into hilarious and often nonsensical poetry. Claire Cohen tests it out, using the Twitter handles of some of our favourite women...
View ArticleRod McKuen, poet and songwriter, dies
The Grammy-winning songwriter of Seasons in the Sun has died aged 81
View ArticleTravelling Tinker Man and Other Rhymes by David Essex, review: 'not superior...
David Essex's poetic musings on life are a peculiarly British affair, with emotion and honesty masked by cheesy rhymes
View ArticleEngland's most influential poet (you've never heard of)
George Mpanga - aka George the Poet - grew up on an estate in north London before reading politics at Cambridge and is now being hailed as one of poetry's brightest young stars. He tells Theo Merz...
View ArticlePoems by Iain Banks and Ken MacLeod, review: 'blazing energy'
Charlotte Runcie on the messy, furious early poems of the deceased sci-fi novelist Iain Banks
View ArticleKim Kardashian's Marriage by Sam Riviere, review: 'great wit'
Iona McLaren admires a collection of poems inspired by the reality star
View ArticleViewfinder: 60 inspiring photographs
Beautiful, unexpected images from around the world
View ArticleStevie, Hampstead Theatre, review: 'treads water'
A pulse-quickening performance by Zoe Wanamaker cannot save this play about the poet Stevie Smith, says Dominic Cavendish
View ArticleSummer Requiem by Vikram Seth, review: 'serene'
Vikram Seth's new collection of poems is quietly affecting, says James Walton
View ArticleThe best books of 2014
Novels, memoirs and histories: if you're looking for a new book to read, this is a good place to start
View ArticleThe best history and war books of 2014
The Telegraph selects the year's must-read history books
View ArticleBest novels and fiction books of 2014
The must-read novels and short story collections of the year
View Article100 novels everyone should read
The best novels of all time, from the Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy to George Eliot's classic Middlemarch
View ArticleThe most spectacular libraries in the world
From Rococo fantasies to nests of twigs and steel, here are some truly beautiful places to store books
View ArticleWhat if Shakespeare was as horny as Craig Raine?
The 70-year-old poet was mocked on Twitter for lecherous lines about younger women. But these extracts, collected by Michael Deacon, show no writer is immune
View ArticlePhilip Larkin: The Sunday Sessions - Philip Larkin Reading His Poetry
Philip Larkin reads his own poetry on The Sunday Sessions - and it's wonderful to hear the sound of a superpoet
View ArticleAlan Bennett on the poems that inspire him
Alan Bennett chooses works by poets from Thomas Hardy to Philip Larkin
View ArticleHidden meaning behind poem will brighten your day
A teenager's seemingly sombre poem has gone viral after its hidden uplifting message was revealed
View ArticleQuiz: how much of a poetry buff are you?
In celebration of national poetry day, test your poetry knowledge
View ArticleSamuel Taylor Coleridge gets folk music tribute
Singer Ange Hardy honours the romantic poet who wrote The Ancient Mariner and was born on October 21 1772
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