Transpoesie 2026 is a two-day event taking place in September in Brussels.

And we find out which member of our BBC team is a spoken word poet and how she is among a growing number of people worldwide ...

Lyse Doucet, the BBC's Chief International Correspondent and regular visitor to Afghanistan, talks to female Afghan poets about the landay: a 22 syllable Pashtun verse form they create, perform and ...

Jayce from Birmingham handpicked 20 poems written by children from underrepresented backgrounds.

They are credited with bringing creative inspiration to millions every day - a simple idea that has been copied in cities across the world. In 1986 the first Poems on the Underground appeared in Tube ...

Some of the Morning Live family read a poem written by viewer Terry, on being an unpaid carer. The poem is based on his experience of caring for his father for eight ...

You're sitting on a sweltering Central Line tube carriage wearing a jacket too warm for the day; the podcast on your headphones endlessly buffering. In an attempt to avoid eye contact with the person ...

Children were invited to submit poems or artwork inspired by the events of the Great War in the Never Such Innocence Charity's commemorative competition. The two winning students from JCG Hannah Owens ...

A BBC Breakfast reporter was moved as she read out a series of poems written by a grieving widower to his late wife as he opened up on how reaching out to a charity 'changed his life'. Described by ...

This Poem was brought in by a gentleman called Ted of Humberston. It was written to him by his wife while he was doing service during the war. She passed away about three years ago now, and he found ...

Will McAvoy reads a Charlie Reynolds’ poem about a walk he took as a child, ‘Up the rodden’ - available on a tape called Braid Tongue Poems or in Charlie’s book, ‘Mae grenfeyther’s tunge’. The fiddle ...