Poetry classics - quiz
How well do you know your knights errant from your coy mistresses? Find out in our fiendishly difficult quizBilly Mills
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Regina Derieva obituary
Regina Derieva, who has died aged 64 of heart failure, was a poet, who in her best poems achieved that true metaphysical quality which, according to TS Eliot, is the alloy of thought and poetry at a...
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Costa prize judges take to echoing others' verdicts
Recent winners have broken tradition by adding these awards to garlands from elsewhereIt's rare to find one set of book prize judges endorsing another lot's verdict – they're more likely to tacitly...
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Amiri Baraka, radical playwright and poet, dies aged 79 in Newark
Provocative writer and leader of the 1960s Black Arts movement had been in hospital since the end of last yearBernardine Evaristo: My fiery inspirationJames Campbell profiles Amiri BarakaAmiri Baraka,...
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Amiri Baraka
Poet and playwright who walked away from New York literary society to become a leading figure in the Black Arts movementAmiri Baraka, who has died aged 79, was an African-American writer who chose...
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Amiri Baraka: my fiery inspiration | Bernardine Evaristo
His uncompromising stance set an example of bold and daring work, which continues to resoundThe African-American poet, academic and activist, Amiri Baraka, who died yesterday at the age of 79, was an...
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Amiri Baraka and the black power movement deserve more credit | Daniel Matlin
It wasn't just militancy. The black power movement acutely questioned American society's failures, and still inspires todayLike the 1960s black power movement of which he was a figurehead, Amiri...
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The Hotel Oneira by August Kleinzahler – review
Kleinzahler's work, dreamlike yet savvy, is among the most delightful flowerings of American poetry in our timesFew poets work the barometer harder than August Kleinzahler. In 1985 he published Storm...
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Can't find the right words for a loved one? Try verse instead
Jenny Swann set up a printing press in memory of her mother to publish poetry that people could send instead of cards at special timesThe last conversation that Jenny Swann had with her mother was...
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The Saturday Poem: 53° 09'33.17" N, 0° 25'33.18" W
by Rory WatermanA lodge-house to an estate, once: the front wallstill ends with one redundant brick gatepost,its rustic latch clicking only to wind,and the clean bulk of its limestone capshorn of clogs...
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Simon Curtis obituary
My friend Simon Curtis, who has died aged 70, was one of the small band of people who work tirelessly, for no pay and few thanks, to promote poetry. An excellent poet himself, he edited two magazines...
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Poem of the week: Outsider by James Berry
Contending with others' misperceptions and his own isolation, the narrator of these verses reaches a hard-won integrationOutsider, by the Jamaican-born poet James Berry, first appeared in his 1979...
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TS Eliot poetry prize goes to Sinéad Morrissey's Parallax
Belfast's first poet laureate joins the ranks of Seamus Heaney and Derek Walcott as winner of prestigious £15,000 awardSinéad Morrissey's "many-angled … any-angled" poetry collection Parallax has won...
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Sinéad Morrissey: 'The best moment of my life'
The TS Eliot prize for poetry 2013 winner talks about her delight over the prize, and the many perspectives in her winning collection, ParallaxHow did it feel when chair of judges Ian Duhig read out...
View ArticleArgentinian poet Juan Gelman, fierce critic of the 'dirty war', dies aged 83
Fierce critic of his country's dictatorship and dirty war against the left
View ArticleDo you know your way around polar exploring in literature? - quiz
Ernest Shackleton reached the limit of his expedition to the south pole on 16 January 1909. Celebrate with a gruelling test on literature's coldest climes
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Morag Morris obituary
My friend Morag Morris, who has died aged 90, was a great creative force who gave generously of her knowledge and love of poetry to hundreds of students at the Guildford School of Acting and the...
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Pen portraits: fine art in fiction
The Goldfinch, the painting Donna Tartt's new novel is built around, is just one of many real-life works of art reworked into literatureThe Goldfinch, the Dutch painting that Donna Tartt's novel of the...
View ArticleSinéad Morrissey's poetry and literary heroines – books podcast
Fresh from winning the TS Eliot prize for poetry, Sinéad Morrissey joins us in the studio to read from her collection, Parallax. One of its poems recounts going into labour with her first child – so...
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Pilgrim's Flower by Rachael Boast – review
Rachael Boast has found her writerly moment with a rich collection about place, history and relationshipsWhy are second collections often more interesting than debuts? Geoffrey Hill came into focus...
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