What is poetry and what is poetry for? To ask the first question is to ask the second. To answer both questions in light of the western tradition stretching back to Homer, and against much modernist ...

The face of radicalism has changed dramatically since its former "dirty, bomb-throwing" image, according to celebrated poet Allen Ginsberg. And last night, Ginsberg, and colleagues Robert Creeley and ...

In 1993, a poetry anthology appeared that seemed to speak directly to the spirit of the times and, in so doing, appeal to an audience far larger than what poetry in English could generally boast. More ...

We humans have been creating poetry since practically the beginning of time… or, you know, since about right around then, anyway — first through song and chants, through images, and finally by ...

Kevin Brophy's co-authored book (with Nathan Curnow), Radar, was published by Walleah Press in 2012. Just as fiction’s George Smiley made sense of the world - and even made his baffling way about a ...

It’s no secret that the main audience for poetry is other poets. If you want to slow or even stop a party conversation, ask, “What new poets are you reading?” Poets are well aware of this, though many ...