In March 2026, the Poetry Archive was delighted to launch a very special poetry collection in partnership with the distinguished Cambridge poet, Richard Berengarten. ‘The Death of Children’ features 40 versions of Richard’s original poem, written in English, and now…
ROULA-MARIA DIB Slow the pulse until it learns the patience of rings, time written inward. They were growing while empires rehearsed collapse. They watched dyes bleed into water, heard prayer ferment into air, felt language lean against bark. I speak…
ROGAN WOLF The Other Side I dreamed last night I crossed a bridge and was terrified by the strangeness of the other side, how dangerous it felt to know so little of what to say and where to hide my…
GERMAIN DROOGENBROODT RECOGNITION Stacked on the writing table the books multicolored, large and small, thin and thick poetry from all over the world. Peaceful words waiting for the recognition, for the acceptance of being distinct and different, to be…
SILVIA PIO She saw the bottom where the water was sweet, surrendered her body to the waves she feared as a gift, and dreamed the dreams she had kept to give as presents wrapped with indecision (and you used to…
JOHN IRVING CLARKE The sycamore sapling sited on the curve of the carefully chosen soft grass verges route in the park. Twice the scene of a near-hit as the cycle wobbled the bend, foreshadowing a cartoon image of a man chasing…
ROGAN WOLF A new collection of 25 English poems for children has just gone online. It is new in more ways than one. Each poem is carefully matched with an original abstract painting by an artist called Rachel Stevens, who…
