The sea has inspired some of the strangest, most imaginative poems in literature, from the ‘‘wine-dark sea’’ of Homer to the great Emily Dickinson, whose ‘‘I started Early – Took my Dog’’ presents a ...

Sea Fever by John Masefield has been voted the nation's favourite sea poem, ahead of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, which came ninth. Sea Fever was published in 1900 and ...

This week Page-Turner is publishing a series on Walt Whitman. Previously, Jia Tolentino wrote about an unusual use of Whitman’s poetry at a drug court in Alabama, and Dan Piepenbring wrote on ...

63-year-old Devendra Bhatnagar, puts together 99 poems that present the golden moments from his time at the sea. Poetry begins with a lump in the throat’, American poet Robert Frost had said years ago ...

Today’s Poem of the Day, “Sea Fever” by John Masefield (1878–1967), has long been a staple of children’s anthologies. It’s the quintessence of the traditional “boy’s poem,” with its call to a life ...

It's national poetry month, and this year marks the 100th anniversary of Pablo Neruda's birth. NPR's Lynn Neary talks to translator Alastair Reid about a newly released collection of the Chilean ...

When Fr Paul Sunny started writing a collection of sea poems 10 years ago, the only wish he had was to release the book at the bottom of the sea. Vizhinjam-based Ajith Shankhumukham and scuba divers ...

This evocative Christmas poem by Robert Louis Stevenson was published in 1888, a few years after his successful novel, Treasure Island. The Scottish writer was the son of a light-house engineer and ...