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The corner of an English field that is forever Rupert Brooke's old house

Brilliant, beautiful, iconic, Rupert Brooke is one of the best-remembered of the First World War poets. The childhood home that helped shape his youthful idealism is now up for sal...

Pent

Cradled within,...

CREDO

But at my back I always hear/ Time’s winged chariot hurrying near. ...

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Poetry...

The Poem He Wrote For Her

Let me in....

New Poems on the Underground for autumn

Transport for London (TfL) has refreshed its Poems on the Underground for the autumn, with a new selection of classical, contemporary and international worksRead more ›

Sunday poem, by Ashlin Mathews

Westminster Abbey to display a memorial to J.R.R. Tolkien

Westminster Abbey’s Poets' Corner will get a new resident next year, when a memorial to J.R.R. Tolkien is unveiled to mark the 90th anniversary of the publication of The Hobbit.Rea...

The most incredible poem of 2026, surely

An epic memoir told in four-line stanzas The post The most...

When poetry lived in landhi

Beyond the posh drawing rooms and grand halls, Karachi’s poetry once thrived in its working-class neighborhood

Sheldon’s Visual Poetry in Second Life

I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Many of us will probably recognise these words a...

Coleridge drinking fountain

{Plaque on the west side of the obelisk:}The gift of a few friends. Erected 1888. {Plaque on the base:}"Drink, Pilgrim, Here! Here rest! And if thy heart be innocent, here too sha...

J.R.R. Tolkien to Join C.S. Lewis in Memorial at Westminster Abbey’s Poets’ Corner

Literary giants J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, whose profound friendship and Christian faith transformed modern literature, will soon be jointly honored at Westminster Abbey's este...

Cigarette's and Poetry

There I sat in his smoke filled room ...

Weekly WalkaboutsVerse, E.G., Poem 48 of 230:В  THE PROMS

Poem 48 of 230:  THE PROMS...

The Sunday poem, by Haro Lee

Oxford, August 1941

the soft airs of centuries of youth...

Midlothian library inspires moving poem from local author whose life was transformed by friendship and community

A poem celebrating the power of libraries has been written by local author Graham Thomson, better known as The Parkie Poet, whose life has been transformed by the welcome, support...

J.R.R. Tolkien to be honoured in with display memorial in London

J.R.R. Tolkien is to be honoured with a new memorial in Poets’ Corner, in Westminster Abbey.

We’re addicted to interruption – daydreaming should be a GCSE subject, says Poet Laureate Simon Armitage

Before he became a writer, Simon Armitage had barely travelled outside of his native Yorkshire. Yet poetry has taken him to Tasmania, China and the Arctic, to universities and vill...

RAMBLING

 one man loved the pilgrim soul in you...

A DREAM of SAND

I have lingered in the chambers of the sea by sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown till hum...

Poem: Ode on Atrophy

Thou still ravished bride of binary Thou foster-child of bandits’ digest The blood of painters, writers and lakes as sacred as a priory. The post Poem: Ode on Atrophy appeared firs...