Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; To bend with apples the ...

As I think I might have mentioned previously, May 1 is the official start of summer here in Ireland. And so, three months later August 1, Lughnasadh, is the first day of autumn. Lughnasadh, or Lammas, ...

All unvisited places are the future, as are the people we didn’t meet that day and the unread pages of a book.” On August 31, ...

This week's poem, "The Autumn Outings", is by the Hull-born poet Maurice Rutherford, and comes from his 1994 collection Love is a Four-Letter World, published by the (sadly) no longer trading Peterloo ...

Specimen trees begin to take on autumnal colors at a tree plantation in the Cheshire countryside on Oct. 21, 2013 in Knutsford, United Kingdom. Getty Images Unpack your sweaters and buy some apple ...

Another summer has come and gone, and now it’s time for autumn. The transitional season between the sunny summer months and snowy winter season, many love autumn for chilled temperatures, cosy nights ...

Argentinian poet Alejandra Pizarnik — dead most likely of a Seconal overdose in 1972, a suicide at age thirty-six — entices the reader to try to puzzle out her life through her poems and would be ...

The day began at 5.45am with a reading of Edward Thomas’s poem in Farming Today. Thomas started writing poetry shortly before he became a soldier in the First World War. He wrote Digging on 4th April ...

May Sarton was a novelist and an avid keeper of journals, but she considered herself a poet above all else. Novels and journals, she said in 1983, are concerned with growth over time, but “the poem is ...