In Wales, there will be a theatre tour of A Child's Christmas in Wales, new productions of some of the poet's works including Under Milk Wood, a series of activities centred on the Boathouse in Laugharne, including a literary public tour.

BBC: Dylan Thomas

More than 35 performers will each read a poem from Ariel, a posthumous collection which includes some of the poet's best known works.

BBC: Sylvia Plath performance planned for Literature Festival

In order to start 2013 on the right shoe, with a foot in it, I went looking for some business advice from the master poet of nonsense and fun, Theodor Seuss Geisel.

FORBES: 6 Lessons From Dr. Seuss

The book went through edition after edition in his lifetime, many carefully overseen, some even part-printed, by the poet himself he was a hands-on kind of a poet-editor.

ECONOMIST: American poets