"I think it's just a great example of a simple poem with one meaning on the surface and a load of deeper context beneath. Roger McGough is brilliant like that, and I highly recommend this book." ...

If you’re hunting for the perfect love poem for a woman, look no further than Byron’s most famous lines. “She Walks in Beauty” praises a woman’s inner and outer beauty, complementing ...

One very simple short poem is “The Red Wheelbarrow.” This clean-cut gem by Jewish American poet and doctor William Carlos Williams invites us into a moment of mindfulness and appreciation of ...

Quick formatting for writers. Start with a plain text, markdown-formatted file: a poem or a short story, and use pandoc to quickly create a PDF or Word doc, using Standard Manuscript Format. Some ...

But there's a problem: "pius" Aeneas, as he's called in the poem (meaning dutiful and ... for those who interpret it that way is simple: read it again. Daniel Mendelsohn is a writer and ...

I’m probably the only person who will think of a ‘70s family film franchise while watching Paul Feig’s “Another Simple Favor.” There was a time, young readers, when sequels more commonly took their ...

Then, when it was screened on TV in 1987, a national furore erupted. "FOUR LETTER TV POEM FURY" thundered the front page of one British newspaper, condemning the "cascade of expletives".

Yesterday one woman’s story blew the lid on our government’s treatment of beneficiaries. Sarah Wilson’s post on her ongoing struggles just to get Work and Income to do their job properly and give her ...