Poetry

Michael Symmons Roberts explores why so many poets choose to become opera librettists.

Jarvis Cocker uncovers an album made by Sir John Betjeman in 1974.

Santanu Das discusses the Indian poet Sarojini Naidu's 1917 collection The Broken Wing.

Soldiers, from corporal to general, choose, read and speak about a poem by Wilfred Owen.

How can Joe, a boy on the autistic spectrum, answer a question teeming with possibilities?

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.

Poet and musician Twm Morys explores links between Dylan Thomas and Wales's poetic past.

Writer and poet Kevin Powell explores Dylan Thomas's influence on black American writers.

Gwyneth Lewis takes a personal journey through the language of Dylan Thomas.

John Goodby explores the ways in which Dylan Thomas's poetry and life crossed boundaries.

In the port of Astoria, Oregon, Katrina Porteous reports on the Fisher Poets Gathering.

Writer Rachel Trezise tells the story of Dylan Thomas's broadcasting life.

Shahidha Bari goes in search of the biggest poetry competition in the Middle East.

Kamila Shamsie discusses Lubna of Cordoba, a female intellectual from the 10th century.

Narguess Farzad celebrates the much loved 13th-century Persian poet Al-Rumi.

Poet Paul Farley imagines himself a sound recordist taping the Garden of Eden.

Michael Horovitz nominates fellow poet Allen Ginsberg as his Great Life.

Anne McElvoy considers how Germans see their country's cultural role.

Kirsty Young talks to poet Gillian Clarke.

Narguess Farzad of SOAS discusses Persian poetesses Rabia Balkhi and Mahsati Ganjavi.