As well as being one of Britain's most popular and acclaimed poets, Simon Armitage is also a dramatist, novelist, broadcaster and the winner of an Ivor Novello award for his song lyrics to the Channel ...

This exercise produced a very entertaining menagerie - and, not surprisingly, an equally intriguing cast of human observers going about the double work of description, both evoking what they're ...

From barn-swallows to mockingbirds, and eggs to baby birds, Kate Kiesler's outstanding oils add graceful complement to the poetry of Margaret Wise Brown, Carl Sandburg, Elizabeth Coatsworth and others ...