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The poet Grace Nichols introduces and reads some of her best-known poems for children: Sun is laughing In this poem Grace Nichols imagines the sun as a moody, teenage girl. For forest Uses ...

A U.S. researcher of Japanese literature has published two books of “waka” poems composed by the emperor and empress of the Meiji Era (1868-1912) with assistance from his poet wife. It was ...

Nah, don't think I'd go that far. Never been that daft. SIMON:There is a tradition of this kind of poem in English literature, where two apparently very different people encounter each other.