Whatever state or mood you’re in, poems about life are there to guide you, to ease you and to help you find meaning and make sense of the world around you. Whether you’re toasting a recent achievement ...

In one of the most famous love poems of all time, Burns goes all out to express the wonder of love: It’s beautiful like a flower, it’s sweet like music, it’s deep as the sea. And Burns isn ...

Sometimes it's hard to put loss into words, but poems about losing a loved one can help you comfort a friend, family member, ...

As the split title infers, this poem is a combination of Lochhead’s own memories of Hogmanay in the 1950s and a love poem written for her husband. Despite its distinctly autobiographical nature ...

“Then word spread, and pretty soon I was writing so many of these love letters, in exchange for ‘tea money’. It was only much later that I realised they were my first attempts at poetry.