Poets have been writing about death since the beginning of the written word, and it’s no wonder their poems often appear at funerals. Not only do funeral poems help people process the loss of a ...

Alfaguara publishes the 'Complete Poetry' of the Argentine writer, a corpus that he kept almost hidden during his lifetime, ...

Forget those funny roses-are-red poems and start with one of the English language’s literary giants. Published posthumously in 1890, “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” is arguably one of ...

Author, poet, and philosopher David Whyte believes in poetry. Specifically, he believes in its ability to rekindle emotions often buried or denied — from anguish and death, to joy and wonderment.

Following his death today his poem, ‘A message for when I’m gone’, went viral on social media. It reads: “Ireland - it is little or no favours you ever did me or my poems when I was alive.