We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: ...

It is easy to assume that the powerful words of this young man from Shropshire captured the true experience of the war. But is that assumption right? Or has our focus on poems like Owen's ...

To mark World Poetry Day, we’ve collected the stories ... When Britain went to war in 1914, there was a sense of patriotism around going to battle for king and country. But after four years ...

George Szirtes remembers Martin Bell, whom he met as a student, and his ‘Collected Poems’ that glitter with laughter and desire ...