Long before elves were taking seats on shelves, Santa’s little helpers were visiting my son bearing gifts. From the time he was 3, the elves penned a poem filled with clues that eventually led ...

Poems That Make Grown Men Cry: 100 Men on the Words That Move Them Anthony Holden (Author), Ben Holden (Author) Simon & Schuster. 336 pages. $43.99 ...

So he created a collection called I'm Just No Good at Rhyming: And Other Nonsense for Mischievous Kids and Immature Grown-Ups. It's a book that's completely unconcerned with the "rules" of poetry ...

You will have heard the phrase: "It's enough to make a grown man cry." Ben and Anthony Holden are a father/son duo who did a kind of 'survey' of men-who-cry over poetry. The idea was to ask some ...

The Sunny Side: Short Stories and Poems for Proper Grown-ups A. A. Milne, . . Ecco, $19.95 (312pp) ISBN 978-0-06-122709-7 ...

A new anthology selects the poems that move well-known men to tears. BBC Culture finds out what makes Stephen Fry, Hugh Bonneville and Seamus Heaney well up.