The epidemic may have been one of history’s greatest widely shared experiences. For some, the pandemic was an uncomfortable combination of positive and negative feelings for many people. Armando Iannucci’s reaction to the epidemic was not a film or television show. His experience of the pandemic unexpectedly manifested itself as a poem. He has labelled […]
Poems and gambling
Many people have read Dostoevsky’s poem The Gambler. It’s clear that there has always been a link between gambling and poetry. In fact gambling has been a source of inspiration for a number of novels and poems. There are many examples when gambling is used as a metaphor for life. Other times a writer will […]
The best poem ever written
This probably won’t come as a surprise but a poem by Shakespeare has been voted the greatest of all time. His poem Sonnet 18 came in first place in a UK-wide poll of the nation’s favourite poetry. Despite the fact that it was penned 400 years ago, the 14-line musing on beauty, mortality, and the […]