POETRY By Bel Mooney for the Daily Mail Published: 22:02 BST, 1 April 2021 | Updated: 22:02 BST, 1 April 2021 POETRY REBELLION (Batsford £12.99) galvanises us to notice and care about our glorious natural world Jen Hadfield doesn’t feature in that anthology, but her THE STONE AGE (Picador, £10.99) transports us to the bleakly … Read more
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle make a surprise appearance in Zoom poetry class in honor of Black History Month where Duchess ‘shared some of her favorite lines’ with stunned teenagers Harry, 36, and Meghan, 39, joined a free poetry class organized by US-based group Get Lit Poetry, which works with young people across the country … Read more
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle make a surprise appearance in Zoom poetry class in honor of Black History Month where Duchess ‘shared some of her favorite lines’ with stunned teenagers Harry, 36, and Meghan, 39, joined a free poetry class organized by US-based group Get Lit Poetry, which works with young people across the country … Read more
Poetry? It’s the new pop: The best books for gifting those who love rhymes this Christmas Bel Mooney rounded up a selection of this year’s best poetry books Among the British literary critic’s top picks is Neil Astley’s Staying Human She reads Allie Esiri’s Shakespeare For Every Day Of The Year each morning By Bel … Read more
Halsey shows off colorful new buzz cut in Instagram selfie as she celebrates release of poetry book By Rachel Mcgrath For Dailymail.com Published: 06:37 GMT, 11 November 2020 | Updated: 06:37 GMT, 11 November 2020 She startled her fans at the weekend when she debuted her newly shaved head on Instagram. And on Tuesday, Halsey … Read more
A haunting book of poetry penned by Auschwitz prisoners who kept it hidden from Nazi guards has been returned to the death camp’s museum after it was discovered in a survivor’s cupboard in Poland. The harrowing 32-page notebook containing 17 poems with ‘snapshots of immense suffering and longing for freedom’ was compiled by female inmates … Read more
It could be verse! Poet Laureate Simon Armitage’s uplifting new work about how coronavirus pandemic has changed lives is released to mark National Poetry Day today Poet Laureate Simon Armitage said lockdown sometimes left him lost for words His new work is about how pandemic changed lives and is released today It’s a commission for … Read more
It could be verse! Poet Laureate Simon Armitage’s uplifting new work about how coronavirus pandemic has changed lives is released to mark National Poetry Day today Poet Laureate Simon Armitage said lockdown sometimes left him lost for words His new work is about how pandemic changed lives and is released today It’s a commission for … Read more
Lyrical solutions to lockdown blues: BEL MOONEY’s poetry roundup for National Poetry Day By Bel Mooney for the Daily Mail Published: 22:05 BST, 24 September 2020 | Updated: 22:05 BST, 24 September 2020 POETRY Poetry Roundup for National Poetry Day In testing times, people need words to channel their feelings, uplift and console — and … Read more
Rage, rage against the dying of the Light. These eight words from Dylan Thomas’s magnificent tirade against the unforgiving power of death are, and will forever be, memorable because they are part of a poem. For the word ‘light’ in that short masterpiece, Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night, we can now substitute … Read more