In my part of the world, the first hints of green are beginning to tinge the fields as life wells up from within the earth. Spring fast approaches. This delightful time of year has always captured ...

“Spring night four a.m.” from Allen Ginsberg’s “Wait Till I’m Dead: Uncollected Poems,” reviewed for the Los Angeles Times by Craig Teicher. “Spring ...

Spring is one of the most popular seasons and a favourite among the writers and poets as its beauty fires up their imagination like no other season. It signifies new life, bringing a lot of happiness ...

Dear Readers: Wishing you and your families a very happy Easter and Passover week. Spring is a time to get outdoors and play. It is a time for new beginnings and fresh starts. It is a time when the ...

April showers bring May flowers, or so conventional wisdom would have us believe. But for those of you disheartened by flowerbeds still too puddle-muddied to bloom, there’s no need to count the days ...

The lingering hours of the dark are passing, And in the fire of incense Spring is born, For in the dawn it is burning in a censer. I know that the Spring is near For the Spring mist spreads her ...

Alice Oswald - A Wood Coming into Leaf. A poem for the first day of spring: Alice Oswald reads her A Wood Coming into Leaf. Charlotte Mew - In the Fields, Philip Larkin - The Trees Spring poems: ...

Ian McMillan is joined by Paul Farley, Caleb Femi and Penelope Lively to consider poetry, ambivalence and beauty, with the arrival of spring. Show more As a new season arrives, Ian McMillan and guests ...