As changeable on the page as in the skies above, they’ve inspired countless poets – now share your poetic experiments in cloud-spotting Living on the ocean-facing side of an island in the North ...

I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid ...

to explain the Torah to you. I’m envious of when we had a Cloud telling us where and when to go. If the cloud lingered, we’d stay. If it was ready to go, trumpets would spread the news, and we’d go.

at the graveside, and their faces are in hiding. They are firing armalites aimed at the sky. against my hand, beseeching. Nick Laird's sixth book of poems, Beast Mode, is forthcoming with Faber. He is ...