Digested week: why does my diary think I need life goals?
Lucy Mangan
Aspirational stationery, sober weddings and French bedbugs – what next, unsolicited poetry?
December 2021
Charities watchdog set to be led by poetry and finance specialist
Nadine Dorries promotes Forward Arts Foundation trustee Martin Thomas for politically sensitive role
October 2019
The language of politics is 'shallow and threadbare', says poet laureate
Simon Armitage criticised politicians’ use of cliches in a discussion about ‘truth’, this year’s theme for National Poetry Day
October 2018
Andrew Motion uses headstone tributes to write new war poem
Former poet laureate drew inspiration from personal inscriptions to write Armistice
December 2017
Culture webchats
Poetry Pharmacy webchat – William Sieghart's prescriptions for the time-poor, love-rich, hectic and more
William Sieghart of the much-loved Poetry Pharmacy handed out stanzas for your struggles, offering you salve whether you’re hopeless, homesick or lonely in love
September 2017
Books blog
Share your poems on National Poetry Day 2017
Appeal launched to collect poetry in endangered languages
August 2017
A 'gurt' plan: National Poetry Day to celebrate England's local words
From the Bristol word for great, via Merseyside’s ‘geg in’ and London’s ‘fam’, 12 authors are writing poems celebrating language tied to English regions
October 2016
On National Poetry Day we should be championing the artform’s diversity
Bridget Minamore
Despite women and people of colour dominating poetry slams, it’s still white men who get most of the paying gigs and festivals
October 2015
Children's books
Celebrate Poetry Day with Joseph Coelho - children's books podcast
Children's books
Top 10 poems about light
Books blog
National Poetry Day: readers dedicate poems to babies, partners, friends and goats – video
John Cooper Clarke's poem for the UK coast released for National Poetry Day
Children's books
Poetry secrets: how to write a poem on a theme
Books blog
National Poetry Day 2015: dedicate a poem to someone you love
Books blog
Stephen Hawking demonstrates Relativity for National Poetry Day
Poems we know by heart: our readers recite – video
It’s National Poetry Day, and we’ve been celebrating by collecting videos you filmed while reciting poems you know by heart – from Oscar Wilde to William Blake via a lot of Shakespeare. Here are some of our favourites
Books blog
What are your favourite children’s poems?
To mark National Poetry Day, Allison Flood offers a few nursery rhyme-free alternatives to the recent top 10 ranking of children’s poems
The Owl and the Pussycat voted most popular childhood poem
Survey for National Poetry Day reveals Britain’s favourite childhood verse to inspire reading of poetry in everyday life, writes Rebecca Smithers
September 2014
National Poetry Day 2014: a celebration in pottery, pizzas and popular memory
Cambridge University finds out which poems have embedded themselves in our memories, and the Guardian looks for verse that folks can recite by heart, writes Ema O’Connor
