From love poems for her and love poems for him to words exploring issues of unity and injustice, gender and race, the best poem books explore all aspects of life.
For anyone who was a teenager in the nineties or later, though, she was already well-known. Her poems are a constant on British school exam syllabuses, although one, ‘Education for Leisure’, was ...
PAM Ayres is a crowd-pleaser, in the nicest possible way. Though she had a cold, she was an ebullient, cheerful presence. I am glad she wasn’t just being interviewed on stage (the occasion marked the ...
By Miya Lee For 20 years, Modern Love has recorded people’s lives. The column has also had real-life reverberations on readers. By Miya Lee Illustrating Modern Love ...