In my part of the world, the first hints of green are beginning to tinge the fields as life wells up from within the earth. Spring fast approaches. This delightful time of year has always captured ...

Dear Readers: Wishing you and your families a very happy Easter and Passover week. Spring is a time to get outdoors and play. It is a time for new beginnings and fresh starts. It is a time when the ...

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 ...

Spring is one of the most popular seasons and a favourite among the writers and poets as its beauty fires up their imagination like no other season. It signifies new life, bringing a lot of happiness ...

I recently read a very beautiful sentence in astronomer Bob Berman’s book *Zoom The Speed of Almost Everything*. The book describes the speed of all sorts of things, and the story about “the speed at ...

A year after asking readers to reflect on the coronavirus pandemic for KidsPost’s annual poetry contest, we decided that a more uplifting theme is in order this year. So we asked kids, ages 6 to 14, ...

Ian McMillan is joined by Paul Farley, Caleb Femi and Penelope Lively to consider poetry, ambivalence and beauty, with the arrival of spring. Show more As a new season arrives, Ian McMillan and guests ...

A tourist lies on the grass, surrounded by spring flowers in a park in central London. Reuters Spring is officially here, and after a winter like this one, we need to go bigger than the age-old "April ...

The official start of Spring is today (20 March) as the vernal equinox marks the start of the astrological season. This equinox essentially means that the equator is the closest part of the earth to ...