A collection of ‘folk poems’ said to have been picked up from alleys and fields around China, The Book of Songs also functioned as satire, diplomacy and moral instruction, writes Martin Kern.

Tas Tobey is on the staff of the Book Review and is studying poetry in the M.F.A. program at the City College of New York. Moral Quandaries: In writing “The Director,” the novelist Daniel ...

By John Burnside New Selected Poems, 1988-2013 Seamus Heaney Faber & Faber, 222pp, £18.99 In September 1994 Seamus Heaney revisited Tollund in Denmark, the imaginative locus of his fourth collection ...

quite a few of the poems in The Fox Petition concern George Jeffreys and his "sometime lover", Clare Collins, both of whom carry considerable moral baggage from their earlier lives – which ...