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Pupils taking their GCSE paper 2 literature exam at Hinchingbrooke School in Huntingdon were mistakenly given the entire anthology of poems.
A Book of Healing Poems (Valley Press, 2024) is a collection of poems by Emily Thomas, described by the author as “mostly a ...
Some flowers are red; some flowers are blue. We have funny roses-are-red poems to share with your entire crew. Roses are red, violets are blue; we love us some funny poems, how about you?
People often put pressure on themselves to crack a poem, unlock its meaning or figure out what the poet was trying to say. Don't do it, says Harryette Mullen, a poet and professor of English at ...
It wasn’t just “legitimate” poetry—it was also relationship-driven despite its platform’s usual fixations on profit. All of this is encouraging—and qualitative. We don’t know very much about what’s ...
“His poems have almost become a part of my daily ... He smiles and takes a breath before answering, “I don't think I am capable of doing that. I haven't even entertained that idea,” he ...
This week’s guest on "Poetry from Daily Life" is Matt Mason, who lives in Omaha, Nebraska. Matt, who was the Nebraska State Poet from 2019-2024, started writing in high school and not long after ...
She settled on the myth of Pygmalion, the 2,000-year-old plotpoint from Ovid’s poem “Metamorphoses,” in which an artist ... that is worthwhile. So far, I don’t think there has been much. “But ...
Florence Pugh has revealed the real reason why she chose not to address the Don't Worry Darling furore back in 2022. The actress played Harry Styles' on screen wife Alice Chambers in the ...
Maybe that provides a skeleton key to unlock the pleasures of Muldoon’s recent poems. Stop trying to parse them. Sing them out loud, instead, and don’t worry about staying in tune. As Muldoon ...
Definitely don't follow him on Twitter. Don't Worry Darling is out now in cinemas, but it's been a movie endlessly mired in controversy -- with rumors of on-set rifts between director Olivia Wilde ...