Back in 2015, we wanted to bring stories of Irish places to children all over the country and further afield. Who knew, that in 2021, it would help me escape outside of my 5km. Pure escapism thanks to writers and poets. Illustrated by .

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Narcissus Poeticus, the daffodil of poets, arrives in late March. In Greek myth the self-obsessed Narcissus was turned into a white daffodil by Nemesis, & Persephone, goddess of was abducted by Pluto while she was gathering narcissi. Img: CMB/Waterhouse

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"František Halas dětem" written by František Halas one of the most significant Czech lyric poets of the 20th century, an essayist, and a translator and illustrated by Ota Janeček a Czech painter, sculptor and illustrator in 1961.

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"František Halas dětem" written by František Halas one of the most significant Czech lyric poets of the 20th century, an essayist, and a translator and illustrated by Ota Janeček a Czech painter, sculptor and illustrator in 1961.

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The sisters Brontës, Charlotte, Emily, and Anne, well known as poets and novelists. Charlotte's Jane Eyre was the first to know success, while Emily's Wuthering Heights, Anne's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and other works were later to be accepted as masterpieces of literature.

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Have you seen all our free resources on the poetry of conflict, from poets' manuscript drafts to close readings & contextual sources?

'Checking Out Me History' & 'Half Caste': https://t.co/XBlIutjx1N
Blake's 'London': https://t.co/eZp447443q
'Ozymandias': https://t.co/sHgJc4zbM5

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Emily Gosse is one of the Lost Poets will be unearthing in our event on March 31st. Her last words were: "I shall walk with Him in white. Won't you take our lamb and walk with me?". Find out about her work life as well as that of many more poets. https://t.co/jLiLqootDZ

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Future Utopia "12 Questions": Future Utopia is a project from the Grammy and Ivor Novello award-winning songwriter, producer and musician Fraser T Smith. The album "12 Questions" is a collaboration that brings together musicians, poets and spoken-word… https://t.co/8Xptchv6wu

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To mark our talented local artists, photographers & poets have shared their artistic tributes to the inspiring and powerful women they love, admire, and revere.

Head to Wandsworth Art to see our gallery of heroines!

👉https://t.co/coWO0soQ2V

👭👩🏿‍🤝‍👩🏻👩🏽‍🤝‍👩🏼👩🏿‍🤝‍👩🏾👩🏼‍🤝‍👩🏻

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🗣Huge thanks to everybody who joined us for Leeds Lit Fest 🙏

🙏All the writers, speakers, audience members, partners, all working to make it happen

🖊 So many great writers, thinkers, poets, ppl in & around Leeds. Great to celebrate that

Future lit fest info 👉

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"Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold." ― Zelda Fitzgerald - https://t.co/IqBTGokmzg ~ ~ https://t.co/kIJY5uajIx

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“I’ll be all the poets, I’ll kill them all and take each one’s place in turn, and every time love’s written in all the strands it will be to you.”

This book is 208 pages.

I have 208 highlights.

There is indeed more highlighted than unhighlighted text.

✨Art by

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Alone and palely loitering - poets on
https://t.co/4uBNE54erW

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🎭The POETs’ lover was her a unicorn, he was rare, colorful, mystical & magical. Sent from the divine, right on time like a gift in the or a shining star that twinkles near & far—my ecstasy was a dream—hell, you know what I

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Julia de Burgos, born in 1914, has come to be considered one of the most influential Puerto Rican and Latin American poets of the twentieth century. She was also a civil rights activist for women and an advocate for Puerto Rican independence. https://t.co/MQXLDvkEY0

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Anne shows no interest in the Lake Poets, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) and Robert Southey (1774-1843).
Southey, Poet laureate, lived at Greta Hall, Keswick from 1804 with his & Coleridge's family since Coleridge abandoned them. Author of Goldilocks and the Three Bears etc.

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The liquor of the poets, as romantic as it sounds, sure is able to make minds go fervent with need and desire.

Read 'The Way They Drank That Absinthe Reverie' on AO3!:
https://t.co/XxZA7qPF7u

🖌️📝:

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📚 - Propertius.

(1/4) Today we're considering one of the best well known Latin elegists, Propertius!

Propertius lived between c. 50-15BCE and was potentially a friend of the poets Vergil and Gallus. With them, he shared the poetic patron Maecenas.

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