Over six centuries, Trinity College, Cambridge, has spawned more poets than any other institution. Here are Herbert, Byron, Tennyson, Housman et al : an unparalleled singing school.

"We seem to live, intellectually and emotionally, in sealed-off universes", writes Gabriel Josipovici in an essay on Hebrew poetry in medieval Spain, just one in a lively multiverse of writings gathered in The Teller and the Tale. The book draws on a...

Timely collection of poems tackling the highly topical issue of immigration.

Lauded as a "national treasure" and "world class" by his contemporaries, "Bard of Barnsley" Ian McMillan is one of Britain's well-loved poets, performers, broadcasters and entertainers. The host of The Verb, BBC Radio 3's Cabaret of The Word, McMilla...

"October Aubade" If I slept too long, forgive me. A north wind quickened the window frames so the room pitched like a moving train and the pillow's whiff of hickory and shaving soap conjured your body beside me. So I slept in the berth as th...

Alice Attie's inaugural volume of poetry is an invitation to collectively "bend into silence as we bend into words". In "These Figures Lining the Hills", readers enter an eloquent, philosophically poignant space where we slip into the folds of langua...

Poetry is often viewed as culturally homogeneous – "stubbornly national", in T. S. Eliot's phrase, or "the most provincial of the arts", according to W. H. Auden. But in "A Transnational Poetics", Jahan Ramazani uncovers the ocean-straddling energies...

"To Forget Venice" is the improbable challenge and the title of Peg Boyers's newest collection of poems. The site of several unforgettable years of her adolescence, the place she has returned to more frequently than any other, the city of Venice is b...

In this unparalleled study of the forms of Hebrew poetry, preeminent authority Benjamin Harshav examines Hebrew verse during three millennia of changing historical and cultural contexts. He takes us around the world of the Jewish Diaspora, comparing...

This volume of Yale French Studies is devoted to the work of Baudelaire, who, more than any other poet, inaugurated the era of modernity. The contributors to this issue reflect on the specific ways in which poetry – and perhaps poetry alone – allows...