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.

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 ...

PJ Harvey's new album, I Inside The Old Year Dying, builds off of a narrative poem she wrote about a year in the life of a 9-year-old girl in a fictional town in western England.

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 ...

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.