Many parents read to their young children at bedtime – but it tends to be a story they share with them, rather than poetry. However, the Children’s Laureate, Joseph Coelho is urging mums and dads to ...

Shuntaro Tanikawa, who pioneered modern Japanese poetry, poignant but conversational in its divergence from haiku and other ...

Will you miss the peaches, apples or cherries the most? Imagine what fear and pain it would take to make you want to leave your town and homeland, much less send your unaccompanied children through ...