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Fiona Shaw to take Ancient Mariner show to New York
The award-winning actor is to revive her epic performance of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's longest poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, for a US premiereOnly a few weeks after her solo Broadway play The...
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Selected Poems by Sophie Hannah – review
A funny, passionate collection of poetry that delights with its artful rumpty-tumpty-tumI used to be suspicious of those poems that rhyme; I felt a snobbish need to sneer, or spurn, or shirk such...
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Paddy Fraser obituary
In her lifetime, my mother, Paddy Fraser, who has died aged 94, probably met almost every 20th-century poet of significance writing in English.She was born Eileen Lucy Andrew (but was known as Paddy...
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John Cooper Clarke, poet – portrait of the artist
'Johnny Depp owes me – he pinched my whole look in Edward Scissorhands'How did you get into writing poetry?At primary school. I had a great enthusiasm for it, as did everybody in my class. We were...
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Another plagiarism scandal hits poetry community
David R Morgan admits to passing numerous works by other people as his own and says he is 'truly sorry'The poetry community is searching its soul after another case of multiple plagiarism emerged over...
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Salt abandons single-author collections amid poetry market slump
Publisher says these books are 'no longer viable' as sales drop by more than a quarterAs figures show tumbling sales for poetry, authors including poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy are mourning news that...
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Patti Smith: punk poet queen
She was the angry, androgynous runaway who got chatted up by Allen Ginsberg and had a grand affair with Robert Mapplethorpe. And at 66 Patti Smith shows no sign of mellowing. We spend a gothic...
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Pink Mist by Owen Sheers – review
Owen Sheers's verse drama about three soldiers from Bristol should be studied in schools alongside Wilfred OwenPink Mist is a tremendous book. It feels huge, engulfing, devastating, although only 87...
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Fanfarlo by Charles Baudelaire – review
Baudelaire's autobiographical novella paints an intriguing picture of himself as a young dandyWritten more than 10 years before Les Fleurs du Mal, Fanfarlo is Baudelaire's only work of fictional prose....
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Poem of the week: Boy Soldier by Fred D'Aguiar
This shocking portrait of a child locked into a brutal cycle of war restrains its language, but its outrage is palpableThis week's poem "Boy Soldier" is by Fred D'Aguiar and comes from his new...
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Poetry is not drowning, but swimming into new territory
News of plummeting sales do not, as some fear, indicate a dying art. In fact, the genre is adapting well to a new publishing ageOn Wednesday evening, a collection of poetry in support of the jailed...
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Canadian visa refusal for Palestinian poet overturned after social media...
Ghassan Zaqtan allowed to attend Griffin poetry prize ceremony following outcry over government's refusal to admit himA social media victory is being claimed on behalf of the leading Palestinian poet...
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CP Cavafy: The Complete Poems – review
The Greek observer of human folly refuses to be entombed by his latest translator's academic thoroughnessWhen Constantine Cavafy died on 29 April 1933, his 70th birthday, his work was little known...
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The Saturday Poem: Ely 1948
by Grey GowrieA de Havilland Dove ascends from a still-commissionedEast Anglian airfield and shakes its small wings at all the damaged and marooned Lancaster bombers. I watch it flyuntil it is even...
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The nine lives of Felix Dennis: "I've lived an unbelievable life, even if I...
Last year, the multi-millionaire publishing mogul and drug-addled dissolute Felix Dennis was diagnosed with throat cancer. But don't count him out yet, he tells Sean O'HaganFelix Dennis is laughing...
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Poem of the week: two cinquains by Adelaide Crapsey
The unjustly neglected early modernist developed from haiku her own form, a vessel for pared-down vernacular observationWhen a loved daughter was christened in Brooklyn Heights in 1878, the name...
View ArticleLondon zoo in poetry: the lovable slender loris - audio slideshow
In the first of a new series of talks by writers about animals at London zoo, Jo Shapcott explains in poetry and prose what is so special about the rare nocturnal mammalJo ShapcottIain Chambers
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Carol Ann Duffy's poem The Crown
A new poem for the 60th anniversary of the coronation by poet laureate Carol Ann DuffyThe crown translates a woman to a Queen –endless gold, circling itself, an O like a well,fathomless, for the years...
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Widow's memoir of David Foster Wallace gathers acclaim
Bough Down, artist Karen Green's collection of poems and collages of her grief after her husband's suicide, is being hailed as a classicArtist Karen Green's meditation on grief following the suicide of...
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Poster poems: the sun
Whether you think summer is finally here, or whether it's just wishful thinking, it's time for your poems about the sun to shineAfter what feels like endless months of rain and cold, we've finally...
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