As a new season arrives, Ian McMillan and guests consider ambivalence and beauty in writing about spring. This week Ian peers into the yellow heart of the daffodil to find out what makes a great ...

Alice Oswald - A Wood Coming into Leaf. A poem for the first day of spring: Alice Oswald reads her A Wood Coming into Leaf. Charlotte Mew - In the Fields, Philip Larkin - The Trees Spring poems: ...

Spring is one of the most popular seasons and a favourite among the writers and poets as its beauty fires up their imagination like no other season. It signifies new life, bringing a lot of happiness ...

Two poems by New Englander Robert Frost on the related theme of seasonal change. The American climate is more extreme than ours and spring more sudden – but the mild south-westerly is familiar on this ...

We lost Bernadette Mayer in 2022. Mayer was a poet and visual artist associated with the New York School. In this poem, the speaker wonders whether all signs pointing toward an early spring are true, ...

Abdur Rehman Rahi was a Kashmir poet, translator, and critic. As one of the foremost exponents of Kashmiri literature, he authored a dozen books and translations. He was also awarded with the ...

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It is generally perceived that literature is meant to depict and narrate the human world which itself is a ‘construct’ of human intellect and emotions. Though this notion is not altogether wrong, it ...

The official start of Spring is today (20 March) as the vernal equinox marks the start of the astrological season. This equinox essentially means that the equator is the closest part of the earth to ...

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