Shannon Henry Kleiber

A different way of hearing the news? Poems.

For generations, through wars, crisis and political upheaval, documentary poets have helped make sense of some of our most difficult moments. So what are they writing about today?

January 19, 2024

A different way of hearing the news? Poems.

Why are islands in the South Pacific disappearing?

December 9, 2023

‘The Marriage Portrait’ author on love, loss and layers of meaning in the Italian Renaissance

September 23, 2023

‘Utterly unlike other birds’: The inscrutable brilliance of owls

June 16, 2023

The all-encompassing worlds of motherhood and poverty

May 13, 2023

A sense of wonder through the eyes — and ears — of a child

March 18, 2023

‘Artists anticipate things because they work in the realm of the imagination’: Creating in a pandemic time loop

June 25, 2022

‘All writing is political’: Author Bernardine Evaristo on tenacity, growing up Black and British, and winning the Booker Prize

May 7, 2022

From pop to punk: Shaping our musical identities

March 27, 2022

Tending a war-time garden: What George Orwell’s fascination with roses tells us about the human need for beauty in the darkest hours

March 5, 2022

Shannon Henry Kleiber

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