When poetry is sold as nothing more inspiring than literary politics, is it any surprise the poetry shelves in Waterstones are so dusty?

Poetry doesn’t need to be useful

Isobel Williams’s treatment of selected poems is literary charcuterie, as neat as it is naughty

When it comes to how to live a meaningful life, the late left-wing poet Stephen Spender and Jordan Peterson exhibit a surprising amount in common

Robert Thicknesse on how the idea that foreign poetry was better than local soon became established dogma

Ageing controversialist

ASH Smyth gives a poetically bad speech at the Galle Literary Festival for the Caledonian Society of Sri Lanka

Poetry has been put through the academic wringer and obfuscated by jargon

A new anthology displays Shakespeare’s engagement with the sonnet form across his career, but at a high cost

The legacy of a left behind war poet