Poets – For Reading Addicts

Authors News

September 2, 2026

Wendell Berry, Poet, Novelist and Environmentalist, Dies Aged 92

American poet, novelist, essayist and farmer Wendell Berry has died at his home in Port…

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Authors News

September 24, 2025

Shel Silverstein: The Poet Who Wrote Your Favourite Songs

Most people know Shel Silverstein as the quirky genius behind The Giving Tree, Where the…

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Quizzes

March 12, 2021

Quiz: On a Poet’s Birthday – Before you knew you owned it by Alice Walker

My New Year’s Resolution for 2021 is to read more poetry. So, this new series…

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News Poetry

May 25, 2020

Irish poets help to ease lockdown stresses

Irish poets are coming together to ease lockdown stress one stanza at a time. In…

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Poetry Quotations

September 30, 2019

A Selection of Wise Prose from Rumi

Persian poet and mystic, Jalal al-din Rumi, known today simply as Rumi, was born during…

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Authors Poetry

May 21, 2019

The Life of Dorothy Hewett, Feminist Poet, Novelist and Playwright

Dorothy Hewett (May 21st, 1923 – August 25th 2002) was an Australian poet, novelist and…

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Authors News Poetry

April 1, 2019

Scholars Discover Proof That Chaucer’s Work Actually Written by His Wife

This week the literary world has been thrown into disaray at the news that the…

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Discussion and Recommendations Poetry

January 5, 2019

Jackie Kay recommends – Poetry anthologies

When First Minister Nicola Sturgeon posted a thread of her best books for 2018, many…

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Quizzes

October 31, 2018

Quiz – John Keats – To Autumn

In honour of Keats’ birthday on October 31st this quiz uses the first stanza of…

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Poetry

October 30, 2018

The Controversy of Ezra Pound

There’s no denying that Ezra Pound (30th October 1885 – 1st November 1972) was one…

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