As I think I might have mentioned previously, May 1 is the official start of summer here in Ireland. And so, three months later August 1, Lughnasadh, is the first day of autumn. Lughnasadh, or Lammas, ...

This week's poem, "The Autumn Outings", is by the Hull-born poet Maurice Rutherford, and comes from his 1994 collection Love is a Four-Letter World, published by the (sadly) no longer trading Peterloo ...

For centuries, poets have turned to autumn as a mirror for the human condition, a season oscillating between abundance and decline, beauty and loss. In earlier traditions, from Shakespeare to Keats, ...

Another summer has come and gone, and now it’s time for autumn. The transitional season between the sunny summer months and snowy winter season, many love autumn for chilled temperatures, cosy nights ...

The amount of poetry majors that I went to school with could all fit into a mid-sized van together, comfortably. Needless to say, it wasn't a hugely popular major — even at a creative writing school.

Specimen trees begin to take on autumnal colors at a tree plantation in the Cheshire countryside on Oct. 21, 2013 in Knutsford, United Kingdom. Getty Images Unpack your sweaters and buy some apple ...

The seasons have long been a source of inspiration for poets and writers and there are plenty of verses about what's currently going on outside your window - the onset of autumn. For some, October is ...

The days are set to become darker earlier, and the leaves will begin to turn brown because Wednesday 22 September marks one of the dates of the start of Autumn. Two dates mark the beginning of Autumn.

The day began at 5.45am with a reading of Edward Thomas’s poem in Farming Today. Thomas started writing poetry shortly before he became a soldier in the First World War. He wrote Digging on 4th April ...