I’m writing this column in the earliest days of another spring, and here’s a fine spring poem from Rose King’s book “Time and Peonies,” from Hummingbird Press. The poet lives in California. a man in a ...

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 ...

In springtime, some people grow misty-eyed with allergies to pollen. The poet Lynne McMahon greets the season gladly, but with the recognition of the hay fever sufferer's fate at this coming time of ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

In early February, winter gray, Stretching sky high from the early morning earth, Begins again, slowly, to melt away. Slowly, invisibly almost. Too slight A pale to promise sun, much less rebirth. I ...

leaving the old river behind in a vast lake. Gone out in Napaimute. Jam below Crooked Creek. Sliver quarter moon above the only gift darkness offers. Sleep fits hardly into short nights. A child ...

Poet laureate celebrates a plum tree in poem commissioned by the National Trust for its blossom campaign The poet laureate, Simon Armitage, has written a new poem which pays homage to spring, in ...

Writer Elizabeth-Jane Burnett brings together 400 voices for optimistic riposte to events of past year Some described chance encounters with birds and animals beginning to chirrup and scurry as the ...

As a new season arrives, Ian McMillan and guests consider ambivalence and beauty in writing about spring. This week Ian peers into the yellow heart of the daffodil to find out what makes a great ...