The debates waged over the opening of the Woodhouse Colliery in Whitehaven, Cumbria, have laid bare starkly different views about the steps the UK should take to honour its net zero commitments. On ...

I love richly detailed descriptive poems, and this one by Barbara Crooker, who lives in Pennsylvania, is a good example of how vivid a picture a poem can offer to us. Her most recent book is “Selected ...

I’m fond of the fact that, beyond the title, Paul Klee does not appear in Jack Ridl’s luminous poem at all. I think Klee might have liked that, too. A painter who loved mystical colors blurring, earth ...

Stand With Me Here, by Robert Francis (Macmillan, $1.75), is a great deal more than a young man’s first book of poems. It has the best sort of promise: a large measure of present achievement. The ...

THERE has been a real need for a definitive collection of modern poetry of the period since the World War, exemplifying recent work of established poets, the increase of associative imagery, the shift ...

I love richly detailed descriptive poems, and this one by Barbara Crooker, who lives in Pennsylvania, is a good example of how vivid a picture a poem can offer to us. Her most recent book is "Selected ...

Readers are generally well advised to keep away from books whose titles contain the words best or greatest in conjunction with poems or poetry. Changing on the Fly: The Best Lyric Poems of George ...

Larry McMurtry once concluded that nearly all of Texas literature was minor and sentimentalist. Writers like J. Frank Dobie and Walter Prescott Webb mourned a Texas that had been dead for nearly half ...