"Nought may endure but Mutability," wrote Shelley, joining an imposing line of English poets to have tackled this theme of perpetual change, including Spenser, Shakespeare, Marvell and Wordsworth. Jo ...

Today's quote of the day is taken from the poem “Mutability,” written by renowned Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. It is a poem that reflects the poet’s deep preoccupation with change, impermanence ...

As she celebrates winning the Costa prize for her latest poetry collection, ‘On Mutability’, Jo Shapcott recalls the cancer that shaped her work and transformed her life completely IN 2003, Jo ...

‘A lot of things jostle in my notebook, things that I have overheard, or heard about,’’ says the poet Jo Shapcott, the morning after winning this year’s Costa Book of the Year, and still sounding a ...

Change is a staple of poetry down the ages, so the title of the quietly powerful new book by Jo Shapcott (below) echoes the writing of numerous poets. But it also acknowledges a 1986 exhibition by the ...