YEAH NO By Jane Gregory 97 pp. The Song Cave. Paper, $17.95. The aims of the Language (or L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E) poetry movement that emerged in the late 1960s were largely political: Rational syntax, these ...

For more than 40 years Charles Bernstein has been writing poetry that doesn’t always mean what it seems to be saying. It’s not simply that his work is often highly ironic, but that his uses of ...

Paul Celan, Memory Rose Into Threshold Speech: The Collected Earlier Poetry, A Bilingual Edition, translated by Pierre Joris and with commentary by Pierre Joris and Barbara Wiedemann, 2020 (image ...

Ireland possesses the oldest vernacular poetry in Europe. Its earliest forms (dating from the sixth century AD) trace the movement from a pagan to a Christian Ireland. The initial reliance on ...

W. S. Di Piero never wants to hear again that his poems are intense. “You get tired of hearing certain things if they get said so many times about the kind of work you do. I don’t write poems that are ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. WHEREAS By Layli Long Soldier 101 pp. Graywolf Press. Paper, $16. The American poet Layli Long ...

Listen to a 9th century Irish poem in its original language Dr. Mark Harman recites the 9th century Irish poem 'Pangur Ban' (author unknown) in both Irish and an English translation. Dr. Mark Harman ...

Juneau-based poet Emily Wall has been working on a book of birth poems for six years. She collected birth stories from as many different people as she could, asking participants to recall specific ...

This short video shows us three different American Sign Language poems – two of which are less than a minute long. They give us an idea of poetry that is entirely out of most mainstream experience, ...

Caedmon’s Hymn said to have been written by a cattle-herder from Whitby 1,300 years ago Nick Squires is The Telegraph’s Rome correspondent, covering Italy, the Vatican, Greece and the Balkans. He has ...