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