The BBC is launching a nationwide search to find a British poem to rival Wordsworth's Daffodils or Kipling's If. It aims to come up with a winning entry which will reflect modern Britain and be ...

Forty years ago, Northern English poet Harrison published a powerful work inspired by vandalised gravestones in his hometown Leeds. Then, when it was screened on TV in 1987, a national furore erupted.

This attitude was clearly expressed in Rudyard Kipling's poem, "The White Man's Burden." Kipling spent his childhood in India and shared the British perception of the Englishman's place in the world.

A one-man show that re-creates Die Hard in rhyme and is also a rom-com: That’s the gist of British playwright-poet Richard Marsh’s takeoff on the iconic 1988 Bruce Willis action flick.

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The stanzas recount the Battle of Baltimore, a days-long siege between British and American forces. The poem was set to a tune called “The Anacreontic Song,” which was composed in the late ...

Robert Seufert and Sherri Mitchell will showcase poetry and songs from the British Isles at Jacksonville Public Library.