poems
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“I think it was partly because I liked how short most poems were but also how they contained secret messages you had to decode,” muses Batter, the narrator of Bonnie Garmus’s “Peck & Peck.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
Connolly also presented Trump with a collection of poems by Michael Longley that includes “Ceasefire,” a poem inspired by the 1994 IRA ceasefire that helped pave the way for the Good Friday Agreement.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
“As he said in one of his many poems, hope is what we owe people younger than ourselves.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
He said the book was influenced by classics, adding: "One of the only poems I can recite is The Owl and the Pussycat and I suppose there's a similar metre to that."
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
The whereabouts of Franklin and his men would become one of the world’s greatest mysteries, inspiring scores of books, poems, and ballads.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
