In previous selections of the best colour poems, we’ve offered a colourful range of poems including classic verse about the colour green, poems about all things yellow, all things red, all things blue, all things black, and all things white. But what about that most prized colour of all: gold? […]
Octobers and birthdays loom large in Sylvia Plath’s work, which perhaps isn’t surprising since she was born in October (27 October 1932 – which, it just so happens, was the day Dylan Thomas turned 18 years old). As well as writing ‘Poppies in October’ and ‘Poem for a Birthday’, Sylvia […]
In an earlier post, we offered some of our favourite poems about beginnings of various kinds. Now, it’s the turn of the end: below, we offer some classic poems about ends, endings, and conclusions of various kinds, from the end of the day, to the end of life, to the […]