Coetzee’sLives of Animals, dismisses “that kind of poetry [in which] animals stand for human qualities ... Not surprisingly, then, there are many poems that do not fit my scheme, that foreground... In ...

Is it possible to capture a tiger in a poem? The poet laureate, Simon Armitage, has written a lot about animals in the past, but always at a distance. He wants that to change - to feel that he has ...

The poet laureate Simon Armitage meets birds and their relatives, to inspire his new poem.