14 March 2026
Liverpool City Council

Blog · 3 October 2019

The power of poetry

Our communications manager, Michael Doran, shares the power of poetry… Shakespeare. Milton. Keats. Wordsworth. Coleridge. Yeats. Shelley. Byron. McGough. Henri. Patten. Carroll. Burns. Heaney. When you think of poems, it’s often one of the greats whose wordplay will most readily spring to mind. Not me. My first real brush with the power of poetry was