What kind of love poems are you in the mood for? Throughout literary history, love poems have connected lonely hearts, transcended cultural barriers and ultimately withstood the test of time.

The poem combines Lochhead’s memories of Hogmanay in the 1950s and a love poem written for her husband to suggest enduring love that lasts through the years. Liz Lochhead’s love might last ...

Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the natural world and the human condition?

They transform the sonnet from a poem about romantic love to a powerful statement speaking on the conflict in England at the time. The royalists, who were in favor of the monarchy, battled against ...