What to read this July, from a dark satire on war journalism to a memoir told in verse - BOOKS OF THE MONTH: Martin Chilton ...

Indeed, verse has proven capacious enough to grapple with global problems such as climate change. Ellen Hagan says her latest verse novel, Don’t Call Me a Hurricane (Bloomsbury, July, ages 13 ...

Verse novels use a blend of poetry while confronting sensitive topics that many teens may face, such as racism, sexuality, identity, and assault. Here are six unforgettable must-read young adult ...

Engle (Wild Dreamers) melds young love, endangered wildlife, and Cuban political history in this sensitively rendered verse novel. When Cuban-born Vida and Adán were children, they bonded over ...

After an outing last year as a bridesmaid on the shortlist for the T S Eliot Prize, the Canadian poet Anne Carson yesterday took the poetry world's £10,000 bouquet for her book The Beauty of the ...

Based on the critically acclaimed best-selling verse novel by Kwame Alexander, who also serves as the TV adaptation’s creator, EP, co-writer and co-showrunner, the series follows the lives of ...

Darlington’s Fall: A Novel in Verse By Brad Leithauser Knopf, 311 pages, $25 It is appropriate that poet and novelist Brad Leithauser’s new novel in verse, “Darlington’s Fall”–an ...

Jasmine Warga's middle grade novel in verse follows a Syrian immigrant girl struggling to fit in with her relatives in unfamiliar Cincinnati. It's remarkably sensitive, and deceptively easy to read.