with dignity and love for herself. Best known for his experimental use of form and punctuation, American poet Edward Estlin Cummings (1894–1962) helped redefine modernist free-verse poetry.

Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to marriage, The Skunk, combines exile and erotica, moving from an American wilderness image ...

Is it for some burial place, vast and dry? Is it to wet the soil of graves? This poem is written in free verse. Try writing your own free verse poem. It doesn't have to rhyme or use a structure ...

You can read the winning poem and our shortlist below. Congratulations to all five poets, and thank you to all who entered. or letters to the lost and unrequited. My love for you is balled up ...