Do you think your poems belong to a separate, inner world, removed from your working life?   Shari Daya is a Cape Town-based poet and geographer who uses her academic research and expertise as raw material for her deeply engaging poems. Her debut collection, Land / Lines, was published by Karav...

Love and grief tend to leave human beings speechless. Under their spell, we still turn to poetry for words of ecstasy or consolation.   As we prepare to celebrate Valentine’s Day on 14 February, the AVBOB Poetry Project celebrates the stirring, tender love poems of Larry Schwartz, a poet ...

When you start writing a poem, do you try to work out in advance what you are going to say?   When we read strong poems written by other people, it is easy to believe that they arrived perfectly finished and fully formed. In fact, the best poems can grow out of the silliest ideas or a fragment ...