If you have been keeping your eyes peeled and your ears open recently you may have heard that the government is launching a new campaign to get kids to learn poems by heart. Yes, you heard me. When ...

I am in genuine awe of John Basinger, who has learned the whole of Paradise Lost by heart – all 12 books, 10,565 lines and 60,000-odd words. He completed his feat in 2001 and can still recite it today ...

SINGAPORE: Have you spotted poetry splashed across the train during your morning commute? More than a hundred poems by Singapore writers are now featured on some SMRT trains and stations on the Circle ...

There’s no rhyme or reason why we shouldn’t be able to quote a few lines of uplifting verse when the mood or occasion inspires us. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Lancashire Evening Post, ...

NEW YORK – Beginning work a few years ago on her latest book, an anthology of poems for young people, Caroline Kennedy found herself looking through one of her mother's scrapbooks. She burst into ...

Personality development is not a new concept. It has been in existence for 400 years — not merely in the form of books and texts, but delivered through poems. To promote the significance of poems and ...