Over the last half-century, British poets including Philip Larkin and Andrew Motion have driven a ‘lawnmower poetry microgenre’, using the machine to explore childhood, masculinity, violence, ...

"Lawnmowers draw people to poetry as much as poetry draws people to lawnmowers," she said. The university said the study ...

The nub of being poet laureate seems to be being asked what the point is of being poet laureate’ - THE SATURDAY INTERVIEW: ...

The study, published today in Critical Quarterly, argues that the tradition goes back to the 17th-century poet Andrew Marvell who used mowing – with a ...