Poets often write about love, and there are many great poems written to mark weddings, or to express love for a mother or mother-figure in the poet’s life. But what about brotherly relationships and brotherly love? Here are some of the very best poems written for brothers or about brothers. […]
Randall Jarrell once said that a good poet is someone who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning 5 or 6 times. And many poets have ‘seen the light’, and written about it: whether a sudden flash of light like a lightning bolt, […]
What are some classic poems suitable to be shared or read aloud at christenings? Poets haven’t often written about christenings as such, but many poets have written touchingly, humorously, or powerfully about the arrival of a new life into this world. Here’s our pick of ten of the best poems […]