Poetry is difficult to recreate in another language, as distinct from literal translation. But here Sergei Roy captures the urgency and tumbling succession of images of Boris Pasternak's original, ...

NEW DELHI: Sarah Kay is a poet but ask her to define a poem and she says, "I wouldn't". In fact, her mission as a poet is to bring down the walls that "alienate" several readers from the literary form ...

In 1993, a poetry anthology appeared that seemed to speak directly to the spirit of the times and, in so doing, appeal to an audience far larger than what poetry in English could generally boast. More ...

Najwa Zebian is one of a new generation of poets who have become popular through social media and, particularly, Instagram, with almost a million followers hanging on to her every poem. She has ...