Sidney Keyes was a few weeks old when his mother died of peritonitis, and his father, Captain Reginald Keyes, returned with the child to his own father's house. SKK, commemorated in this week's poem ...

The Patriarchs – An Elegy deliberately avoids the sycophancy Philip hated, the poet says, and is instead ‘in service of all people like him’ Simon Armitage has written a poem to mark the death of ...

Too proud to die, broken and blind he died The darkest way, and did not turn away, A cold kind man brave in his narrow pride On the darkest day. Oh, forever may He lie lightly, at last, on the last, ...

Natasha Trethewey was named the 19th Poet Laureate of the United States in June, becoming the first Southerner to receive the honor since Robert Penn Warren, in 1986, and the first African-American ...