An adorable baby boy gorilla at Woodland Park Zoo was rejected by its deadbeat mother. After the zoo’s staff tried unsuccessfully to train three other gorilla moms to take care of the boy, they ...

The title, The Zoo of the New is taken from a Sylvia Plath poem entitled Child, which is included with a number of other Plath poems. Indeed, the editors have been conscious of the importance of ...

After a 20-year hiatus, the Detroit Zoo has brought back its Zoo Keys, sponsored by Fifth Third Bank. These rhinoceros and gorilla-shaped keys can be purchased for $4 and used at 11 different audio ...

In their brief introduction the editors spell out what they are implying by the title about the kind of poetry they wanted in the book: it “had to possess that ‘clear eye’, and we had to feel that the ...

Selected by Nick Laird and Don Paterson, two of our most lauded and beloved living poets, and conceived of as a collection of their favourite poems, The Zoo of the New is set to establish itself as ...

Despite this, they are a long and proud tradition — poetry is a literary form that invites the collecting of verse across generations and themes into single volumes. With Nick Laird and Don Paterson’s ...