Revel in the different shades and meanings of the word ‘green’ which can make poetry so vivid – from Shakespeare’s jealous ‘green-eyed monster’ through poetry by John Keats, Claude McKay, Christina Rossetti, to the present day. How can today’s poets make their poetry ‘evergreen’?

Poets including Owen Sheers, Karen McCarthy Woolf and Liz Berry explore some of the most beautiful poems ever written.