April showers bring May flowers, or so conventional wisdom would have us believe. But for those of you disheartened by flowerbeds still too puddle-muddied to bloom, there’s no need to count the days ...

The Velvet Underground, it has been said, did not sell many records, but everyone who bought one went out and started his or her own band. James Schuyler was, perhaps, the Velvet Underground of verse: ...

If we’re going to celebrate literary birthdays in February, it’s hard to dodge the birthday of James Joyce (1882–1941) on February 2, if only because Joyce is, well, Joyce. Over the past few decades, ...

On Valentine’s Day, what could be better than a puzzle that combines flowers, poetry and secret codes? By Sam Von EhrenAndrew Dore and Robert Vinluan In Victorian England, flowers were sometimes used ...

I fled a burning archipelago in the rain, on my mother’s back, in another war or perishes in a thicket of words. And so, speaking as one of the flowers, I’ll seek rest in falling. I’ll seek asylum in ...

This poem appears in Maneo Mohale's collection, Everything Is A Deathly Flower, published by Uhlanga, 2019. Maneo Mohale reckons boldly with the experience of - and the reconstruction of a life after ...

Poet laureate Simon Armitage has honoured Queen Elizabeth II with a new poem titled “Floral Tribute”, which was shared on Tuesday (13 September). The Queen died “peacefully” at Balmoral last Thursday, ...

The Velvet Underground, it has been said, did not sell many records, but everyone who bought one went out and started his or her own band. James Schuyler was, perhaps, the Velvet Underground of verse: ...