April showers bring May flowers, or so conventional wisdom would have us believe. But for those of you disheartened by flowerbeds still too puddle-muddied to bloom, there’s no need to count the days ...

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On Valentine’s Day, what could be better than a puzzle that combines flowers, poetry and secret codes? By Sam Von EhrenAndrew Dore and Robert Vinluan In Victorian England, flowers were sometimes used ...

Poet laureate Simon Armitage has honoured Queen Elizabeth II with a new poem titled “Floral Tribute”, which was shared on Tuesday (13 September). The Queen died “peacefully” at Balmoral last Thursday, ...

I fled a burning archipelago in the rain, on my mother’s back, in another war or perishes in a thicket of words. And so, speaking as one of the flowers, I’ll seek rest in falling. I’ll seek asylum in ...

“What dark flower bloomed here,/ what promise led anyone/ down this path, black orchid/ red rose/ how does consciousness separate/ itself from the body?” These lines are part of the first poem (“The ...