A na’at is a poem expressing the poet’s devotion to the Prophet of Islam. A rubai is a four-line poem on a specific theme like The Ruba’iat of Omar Khayyam. Humorous and satirical poetry is also ...

He also wrote political and social satires. Akbarabadi's influence, through Altaf Husain Hali and Muhammad Husain Azad in the 19th century, has continued in Urdu poetry to this day. One of the great ...

UNICEF celebrates World Poetry Day annually with themes like 'environment' and 'Standing on the shoulders of giants'. Poetry ...

Writer, translator and literary historian Rakhshanda Jalil’s ... Urdu. In her latest book, Love in the Time of Hate: In the Mirror of Urdu (Simon & Schuster), a collection of essays on Urdu ...

We’ve gathered the best love poems ever written to help you express what you’re feeling, from adoration to yearning to heartbreak. In addition to love poems for him and her, you’ll find sad ...

Sometimes we all need a cathartic cry. If that’s you today, then give these beautiful and moving poems, selected by women including Judi Dench, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Elena Ferrante ...

As we have seen, Mir has been assigned the laudatory title of Khudā-e Sukhan, the “God of poetry ... Urdu “poets of renown” by Muhammad Husain Azad. Faruqi offers a choice example of Azad ...

When rapper-cum-poet Kate Tempest won last year's Mercury Prize with her debut album Everybody Down it cemented the current popularity of performance poetry. This week the BBC's arts editor Will ...

Modern Literature. The Year's Work in English Studies, Samuel Beckett's Poetry is the first book-length study of Beckett's complete poetry, designed for students and scholars of twentieth century ...

To rationalize away poetry's current isolation by pretending it had always been ignored revealed a depressing brand of intellectual complacency. Reading the many supportive letters and articles ...