Poetry
Stories and literature
idea
Reading books is not just a pleasure: it helps our minds to heal
by Peter Leyland
Poetry
idea
A conversation with my spider Maman and Louise Bourgeois
by Pascale Petit
Stories and literature
guide
How to gain more from your reading
There’s more to words than meets the eye. Deepen your appreciation of literature through the art of slow, attentive reading
by Robert DiYanni
Poetry
film
Enter a dreamy French surrealist poem, where love and reality never quite touch
3 mins
Poetry
idea
The long poem is just right for our confounding, fractured age
by Tess Somervell
Civic life
idea
The power of Langston Hughes’s ‘melancholy citizenship’
by Robert L Tsai
Poetry
film
Sail through Shakespeare’s melancholic soliloquy on life’s seven stages
3 mins
Poetry
idea
Emily Dickinson and the creative ‘solitude of space’
by Magdalena Ostas
Poetry
idea
How poetry casts a spell through the rhythmic magic of metre
by Annie Finch
Learning and education
film
A homework task prompts kids to reflect deeply on learning, and its limits
20 mins