Ten of the UK's top poets have been commissioned to write works inspired by unique museum exhibits.
In Moscow Sir Isaiah met Anna Akhmatova, the best-known of Russia's women poets.
In 1782, Esaias Tegner, one of Sweden's great poets, was born.
Poland's two great poets studied there: Adam Mickiewicz nearly two centuries ago, and in the pre-war years Czeslaw Milosz, a Nobel prizewinner.
Ellie Goulding, Jake Bugg, Rudimental and Sunderland's The Lake Poets will also star at the Newcastle Gateshead Quayside on 26 and 27 May.
Some of Sufism's most esteemed poets and scholars are women.
On the grass next the building is the seated statue of Attila Jozsef, one of the country's great 20th Century poets.
Sidney's quite snarky about those poets, though I don't see why, since he introduced me to them.
Shelley had perhaps already sensed that public and poetic language were diverging when he called poets the world's unacknowledged legislators.
Some poets thought that Newton's laws removed all magic and imagination from the universe.
Dante's vernacular remains an exciting language for poets to engage with because it still feels, linguistically, within our reach.
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The Poetry House is part of the university's School of English whose staff include poets Don Paterson, Kathleen Jamie, Douglas Dunn, Robert Crawford and John Burnside, amongst them winners of the Whitbread Prize, the T.
"If the manuscripts had ended up outside the country it would have saddened us all as a family as the poets who became papa's lifelong friends and peers all met up at Oxford as undergraduates, " they said in a joint statement.
In the poetry category, John Burnside's win comes after a prolonged period in which poets Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney dominated the Whitbread awards.
More interesting than the proliferation of hip n' hipster following the Beat poets are the claims to the word's origins.
Not surprisingly, Mr Forbes's anthology finds little room for the quieter, subtler poets of the century: Rainer Maria Rilke, for example, has no entries.
Mr Anderson said that because the library was "a historic and important city gem, we want there to be an event which highlights the city's reputation for producing much-loved playwrights, storytellers, songwriters, poets and authors".
All these poets, and many more, are represented in Mr Forbes's anthology.
Immortalised by poets and writers across the centuries, Istanbul is one of the world's most enchanting cities.
This includes the inter-weaving of written words with moving images and sound, in which the poets can create online "performances" for their work, says the centre's director, Loss Pequeno Glazier.
The thrust of the narrative, aided with illustrations including Mr Thompson's pleasant photographs, hangs on a series of introductory and diverting potted histories of the Lake poets, writers, artists, climbers and charlatans who gave a remarkable profile to this relatively low-lying group of mountains in England's north-west.
Even these fine volumes, though, are overshadowed by the collection's 20th-century material, in particular the art books that grew out of Mr Gillet's friendship with Jean Hugues, a bookseller and gallery owner from Provence who knew many of the Surrealist poets and painters, and who opened a bookshop in the rue Jacob in Paris in 1952.
Britain's largest-ever poetry festival, Poetry Parnassus, will take place on the South Bank and feature 205 poets, one from each of the Olympic nations.
The poets have been matched to collections at Cambridge University, which include objects such as Captain Scott's farewell letter to his wife and Charles Darwin's zoological specimens.
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