Poetry is at our oldest means of saying what is important in life

All the poets

All the poets

Alexandra Howe says goodbye to RE | Issue 21 | 2022
Shakespeare

Shakespeare

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? | Alexandra Howe reads sonnet 18 | Issue 20 | 2022
Charlotte Mew

Charlotte Mew

Alexandra Howe reads 'I So Liked Spring' by Charlotte Mew | Issue 19 | 2021
Louise Glück

Louise Glück

'There was a time only certainty gave me any joy' | Alexandra Howe on the American poet Louise Glück | Issue 18 | 2020
Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath

Alexandra Howe reads 'Morning Song' by Plath | Issue 17 | 2020
Hannah Sullivan

Hannah Sullivan

Alexandra Howe on Hannah Sullivan's Three Poems | Issue 16 | 2019
Barbara Blake

Barbara Blake

Our very own home-grown poet | Issue 15 | 2019
John Keats

John Keats

Alexandra Howe on Keats and negative capability | Issue 14 | 2018
W H Auden

W H Auden

Alexandra Howe on Auden and suffering | Issue 13 | 2018
Mark Strand

Mark Strand

Alexandra Howe on the poet Mark Strand and the artist Edward Hopper | Issue 12 | 2017
T S Eliot

T S Eliot

Alexandra Howe on Eliot and how to read poetry | Issue 11 | 2017
Qin Guan

Qin Guan

Chen Xiao on Qin Guan and the magpie bridge | Issue 9 | 2016
Chaucer

Chaucer

Alexandra Howe on Chaucer and the Miller | Issue 8 | 2015
Edward Thomas

Edward Thomas

Alexandra Howe on the war poet Edward Thomas | Issue 6 | 2014
Rocco Scotellaro

Rocco Scotellaro

Annarosa Brandi and Mariolina Paparella on the Italian poet Scotellaro | Issue 5 | 2013
Adam Zagajewski

Adam Zagajewski

'How unattainable life is' | On the Polish poet Zagajewski | Issue 4 | 2013
Aquiles Nazoa

Aquiles Nazoa

Alexandra Howe on 'Credo' by the Venezuelan poet Aquiles Nazoa | Issue 3 | 2012
Carol Ann Duffy

Carol Ann Duffy

'For thousands of seconds we kiss' | Sarah Webster on the UK's first female poet laureate, Carol Ann Duffy | Issue 2 | 2012