Narrative means story. So a narrative poem is a poem that tells a story. There is often no narrative in poetry because poems are generally about thoughts or emotions, rather than stories.

One of the basic characteristics of a Romance poem or poetry is that it usually or more often, comes in an epic form or in ballads or idylls. It also usually, tells of the chivalry of which ...

This month’s Narrative Matters poems, by Joy Jacobson, Deborah Fries, and Lisa Annelouise Rentz, touch on subjects as diverse as patient pathologies, an organ donor, and cancer treatment.

I’m a fan of narrative poems, poems that tell a story. As I see it, that’s how poetry started, with epic poems that had to be memorized to be passed down, as people didn’t have printing ...

The narrative poem is, according to the description, "set in a magic realist version of the West Country," and is the first book to be written in the Dorset dialect for decades. PJ Harvey's site ...

Former Topekan writes narrative poems about war combat 'Harm's Way Triology' focuses on Battle of Tarawa, Battle of Bull Run. Jan Biles.