to love, even briefly, the elk of your own tongue. We become a myth that will cleave in the middle. I admire spooling lotus after lotus after. Fragment of my body: brown edges. The whorl of a question ...

Cambridge students were asked in an exam to write about a poem which included no words, just punctuation. How would you go about making sense of it, asks Jon Kelly. Turn over your papers, please.

A poem with no words, and only punctuation, left Cambridge English university students baffled. Cambridge University English Literature students were left shocked and baffled after opening their ...

The best way to think of tone in a poem is to imagine how it would be spoken and what mood you think the speaker would be in. There will be clues to the tone not just in the language but in the ...