Is it possible to capture a tiger in a poem? The poet laureate, Simon Armitage, has written a lot about animals in the past, but always at a distance. He wants that to change - to feel that he has ...

Despite being perhaps the most famous animal elegy ever written ... horse, or any other animal. Part of the poem’s popularity ...

Can an astonishing fish help the Poet Laureate write an animal poem? Simon Armitage meets Feargal Sharkey, pop star, fisherman, and river campaigner - as well as the poet Daljit Nagra - and ...