Art can help us make sense of the world, and these moving poems about life offer a better understanding of the ups and downs ...

Throw a rock and you’ll hit a poem about romantic love. Poems about aging are a little harder to find (though we will forever be in a swooning state about W.B. Yeats’ “When You Are Old”).

As Judith Beveridge and Dr Susan Ogle, editors of Falling and Flying: Poems on Ageing, write in their preface: "the extraordinary explosion of people predicted to live into old age is shaped like ...

I live with my wife, Sandy, in Springfield, where it is my pleasure to host "Poetry from Daily Life." Since starting ... to his grandfather talk about the old country. Another was about a raven ...

In the very first poem ... are now old, Rao allows herself to grow into her many versions. She is tuned into the complexity of her longing within the framework of her changing life.

choosing to publish his only two books in the last five years of his life. This poem is from a sequence of sonnets about the consequences of losing his sight in old age. Poem selected by Matthew ...