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Albrecht Dürer may not have written Lament on Luther, finds study

Research suggests elegy on arrest of Protestant reformer was the work not of the German artist but of a monkIt has been described as “one of the greatest spontaneous prayers in world literature”, but...

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Paradise: Dante's Divine Trilogy Part Three by Alasdair Gray review – a...

Published posthumously, the last of three Dante translations reveals Gray’s powers of insight and inventionAlasdair Gray, the great Scottish novelist and artist, died a year ago, in December 2019. In...

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On my radar: Francesca Hayward's cultural highlights

The Royal Ballet principal’s passion for interiors magazines, the twists and turns of Succession and superior spaghettiBallet dancer Francesca Hayward was born in Nairobi, Kenya, in 1992 and moved to...

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Sunday with Lemn Sissay: ‘It’s a day to do nothing and do nothing well’

The author enjoys a bit of breathing space, a Zoom chat and a late-night podcastWhat wakes you up? Police sirens. It’s the same every morning, although in Hackney they at least start a little later on...

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‘I’m more optimistic’: poet laureate Simon Armitage tells of Britain’s great...

The writer has blended music, dance and words into a film tracing the pandemicCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageHow to tell millions of individual stories? Or represent the...

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TS Eliot had words of hope for Leavers and Remainers alike | Kenan Malik

Ursula von den Leyen’s quote from Little Gidding is a perfect epitaph for the Brexit yearWhat we call the beginning is often the end/ And to make an end is to make a beginning.”European commission...

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Feed your soul: the 31-day literary diet for January

Looking for a more positive new year resolution? From a Shirley Jackson short story to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s 30-minute Ted talk, nourish your mind with our one-a-day selection of literary treats...

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Poem of the week: To Tartar, a Terrier Beauty by Thomas Lovell Beddoes

A generous, intense tribute to a loving but profoundly mysterious companionSonnet: To Tartar, a Terrier BeautySnowdrop of dogs, with ear of brownest dye,Like the last orphan leaf of naked treeWhich...

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Peter Abbs obituary

My father, Peter Abbs, who has died aged 78, was a writer, poet and educator, and Sussex University’s first professor of creative writing.He wrote 13 books on education and 11 volumes of poetry, as...

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Patti Smith: 'As a writer, you can be a pacifist or a murderer'

As she prepares to ring in 2021 with a performance on screens at Piccadilly Circus, the punk poet explains why she’s optimistic amid the ‘debris’ of Trump’s years in officePatti Smith talks about her...

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For Those I Love: Ireland's potent new poet of grief

Recalling the delivery of the Streets and the music of James Blake, David Balfe’s project is a cathartic document in the wake his best friend’s deathIrish drill, jazz violin and supermarket musicals:...

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2021 in books: what to look forward to this year

Kazuo Ishiguro returns with a novel about an artificial friend, Zadie Smith brings the Wife of Bath bang up to date, Bill Gates takes on the climate crisis ... a literary calendar for the year...

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Salt Moon by David Harsent and Simon Harsent review – night visions

Father and son combine poetry with photography to elegant effect, locating our inner turbulence in nocturnal seasThis book belongs in a category of its own. It is an unusual collaboration between the...

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Poem of the week: Sibelius by John Greening

A meditation on the later years of the Finnish composer reflects more generally on creative renewalSibeliusIt’s January. A swan’s wing overheadreminds you of his Fifthbut also of his death, that...

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Lee Lawrence’s memoir of his mother’s shooting by police wins Costa award

The Louder I Will Sing wins best biography, with other prizes including best novel for Monique Roffey and posthumous poetry honour for Eavan Boland‘My mum was more than the woman shot by police’: read...

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Hiddensee by Annie Freud review – a painterly imagination

Modest, gentle and universal, these understated poems are a small masterclass in the art of synthesisPainter, retired civil servant and the eldest child of Lucian, Annie Freud launched her poetry...

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Poem of the week: Under the Light, yet under by Emily Dickinson

Like so many of her great poems, this almost-riddle combines a childlike simplicity with great complexityUnder the Light, yet underUnder the Light, yet under,Under the Grass and the Dirt,Under the...

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Poem of the month: How to balance law books on your head by Holly Hopkins

The problem isn’t how, I absolutely knowthe answer is to go to a Main Streetsome town I don’t live and find a strangerwho hates me, and my clothes, and my voiceand who (while they would never dreamof...

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From naked protests to challenging Museveni: Uganda’s 'rudest feminist' on...

Stella Nyanzi is Uganda's most outspoken, self-described radical queer feminist. She has been imprisoned for her activism and is known for her attention-grabbing naked protests and poetry. In an...

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Rimbaud's remains will not be moved to Panthéon, rules Macron

President decides against relocating remains of French poet to Parisian memorialThe remains of the famed French poet Arthur Rimbaud will not be moved to the Panthéon mausoleum despite a campaign to...

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