"It would be easy to write a motivational speech asking everyone to come and spend money locally but i think a poem ...

It can be a shock when banks leave our high streets - poet George Szirtes presents a brand new commission for The Verb inspired by that experience, and reads work from his 2004 collection 'Reel' which ...

By that I mean we need to gently confront the nuances of our loss in small but manageable doses. What better way to do this than by reading or writing poetry that cuts deep and subsequently heals.

Poems are like trees. They come in all shapes and sizes. There are: Big ones. Messy ones. Ordered ones. Small ones. Haikus are small poems that share a moment in time with very few words.

Deep South, a small publisher with big influence, has expanded its website with easy-to-access information about its poets ...