For the earlier Wright the salvation that poetry offered was at best temporary. It created a momentary community, perhaps, and provided relief from loneliness but it was always unable to overcome ...

Watch Ian McMillan's tips on writing poems for special occasions Pre-school fun in a magical world of poetry. Tips and advice for budding slam poets and writers. The BBC is not responsible for the ...

But 200 years before the term “loneliness epidemic” entered the ... understood solitude better than most mortals and made poetry of it. While 21st-century technologies are conspiring to ...

The poems that speak to us so strongly that we return to them in times of confusion, fear, loneliness or joy. Some of us might choose to scribble a couple of lines on a Post It and stick it to the ...