“The Pity Of It”, by Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) is dated April 1915 but is known to have been written slightly…
John Agard was born in 1949 in what is now Guyana, but at the time was part of the British Empire as British Guiana. It is on the north coast of South America (between…
The Horses is a poem that was published in Ted Hughes’s first collection, “The Hawk in the Rain”, which appeared in 1957. This collection made an immediate impact…
Chris Rowe is a member of Hinckley Scribblers, a group of mostly amateur but talented writers of poetry, stories and prose who have gained notice in national…