Roger McGough

Our song was Christmas No 1 and we wanted to watch it on TV. So we knocked on a stranger’s door

It was Christmas Eve 1968 and Lily the Pink by the Scaffold was top of the charts. We were a long way from home - and desperate to see our performance

Roger McGough

24, Dec, 2021 @7:00 AM

Carol Ann Duffy leads British poets creating 'living record' of coronavirus

Major names including Imtiaz Dharker, Jackie Kay and father-and-son poets Ian and Andrew McMillan to document outbreak in verse

Alison Flood

20, Apr, 2020 @5:01 AM

'Everyone is pulling together': poems by NHS workers to raise money for Covid-19 appeal

Anthology These Are the Hands collects poems from across the health service, from doctors to cleaners

Alison Flood

27, Mar, 2020 @12:18 PM

Top 10 cats in literature

From riddlers to reincarnated geniuses and fine artists, author Lynne Truss selects fictional felines who show why it’s worth risking one’s reputation to write about them

Lynne Truss

07, Dec, 2016 @12:55 PM

Beyond Bob Dylan: authors, poets and musicians pick their favourite songwriter

Dylan’s Nobel prize win sparked a debate about lyrics as literature. Here, Andrew Motion, Carol Ann Duffy, Johnny Marr, Naomi Alderman and others nominate songwriters whose verse has the power of poetry

Andrew Motion, Carol Ann Duffy, Emmy the Great, Polly Samson, Naomi Alderman and others

05, Nov, 2016 @8:00 AM

Penguin Modern Poets series gets 21st-century relaunch

Iconic brand, which brought together groups of writers – including the bestselling Mersey poets – will release contemporary collections showcasing ‘a new golden age’

Alison Flood

13, Jun, 2016 @1:51 PM

Win a set of Puffin Poetry books

Puffin Poetry are re-launching some of their classic collections – by poets such as Michael Rosen, Benjamin Zephaniah and Spike Milligan – as well as some brand new poems by Roger McGough. For your chance to win a full set of six books, enter here

09, Oct, 2015 @2:21 PM

Sample delights from the CLPE poetry award 2015 shortlist

Looking for great children’s poetry? Check out the brilliant collections that have been shortlisted for this year’s Centre for Literacy in Primary Education prize and sample some of the poems – plus find out how to get involved in the poetry award shadowing scheme

Natalie Tipping

28, Apr, 2015 @7:00 AM

A timeless voice against prejudice: your videos reading Anne Frank

Readers around the world have been recording one-minute readings of Anne Frank’s diary as part of the #NotSilent campaign – here are some of them

Marta Bausells

14, Apr, 2015 @3:49 PM

Grocery rhymes: how poetry has flourished in supermarket aisles

After a couple of students used a sonnet to take a swipe at Tesco, Kathryn Bromwich looks back at the often strained relationship between poets and superstores

Kathryn Bromwich

30, Nov, 2014 @12:05 AM