Who doesn't like being romanced every now and again? It's the little things that count, and what better way to show a little love than by sending short love poems to that special person in your life?

As a festival in London celebrates the art of love poetry, Lucy Scholes discovers how writers around the world express emotions through verse. Love, as we all know, is a many-splendoured thing. Quite ...

April is Poetry Month, a painful reminder for some, who suffered under English teachers who made them write about the cherry tree wearing white for Eastertide or “The Love Song of J. Alfred Pruneface” ...

Ailbhe Darcy What other words could there be for what I felt, at 13 or so, when I laid eyes on a certain "gold, dark boy", but Chimborazo, Cotopaxi? Sure, these words may at times have been ...

Meena Kumari's flirtations with the pen are as seductive as her on-screen persona and now fans have an opportunity to know about the poet in her with a book containing a compelling selection of her ...