Modern accounts of Sylvia Plath’s renowned work and legacy seek to highlight the author’s resilience through a decade-long ...

A hard day here, remembering the day dear ones 'left' us. It seems to happen frequently; they leave without a fuss. A boy or girl - be young or old; when God calls, they 'fly' home! Tho friend or kin, ...

At the end of 2024 South African poet Ingrid de Kok published Unleaving, a significant collection of substantial new poems. At a time of growing anxiety, uncertainty and violence a revival and ...

Grief also plays an outsized role in Gizzi’s poetry. An elegy is, after all, a lamentation, and “Fierce Elegy” took so much ...

When author Michael Rosen lost his son, he found inspiration to write again in a poem by Raymond Carver. For more on reading and mental health, head to BBC Culture’s Textual Healing series.

Grief for a missing mother also grounds “The ... the daughter’s outcome makes clear that the gulls got off easy. With her poetry collection “Museum of the Soon to Depart” (Carnegie Mellon ...