In addition to love poems for him and her, you’ll find sad poems alongside funny poems, as well as short poems amid excerpts from longer epics. These poets have searched high and low for the ...

Whether you’re after something funny, eccentric ... He recognised the need for solitude in love, and this poem reflects the way in which independence and romance make perfect bedfellows.

Sweet fruit o' mony a merry dint, My funny toil is now a' tint ... Welcome to a Bastart Wean', this poem is addressed to Elizabeth, the illegitimate baby of Burns and Elizabeth Paton, the ...

Duffy uses the metaphor of an onion to describe the complexity of love in her poem 'Valentine'. "Not a red rose or a satin heart. I give you an onion." On the face of it, Carol Ann Duffy’s ...

I will never forget the first time I performed a poem to a room full of strangers.  It was 2008 and I was spending summer in Vancouver on an internship. I was a painfully shy 20-year-old who knew no ...