Alexander Pope is granted eternal sunshine of a Twickenham memorial
Thameside urn sculpture celebrates 18th-century poet’s work and underlines his close connection with town where he lived for a quarter of centuryThe home of English rugby will be stirred “by tender...
View ArticleClaudia Rankine's Citizen wins Forward poetry prize
Citizen: An American Lyric, described by jury as a ‘powerful book for our time’, collects £10,000 award for best collectionA book described by one critic as eavesdropping “on America and a racism that...
View ArticleTop 10 books about forgetting
Books about the erasure of memory are usually about its opposite - the real subject of works as diverse as TS Eliot’s The Waste Land and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road is the struggle for fragments of...
View ArticleSylvia Plath’s suicide note - did it name a final lover?
The received wisdom is that Sylvia Plath killed herself after Ted Hughes left her for another woman. But, as Jonathan Bate reveals, the story of her last letter changes everythingThe biographer’s work...
View ArticleEileen Myles: 'People just have to blow it up. That's what I've done for 30...
The New York poet has been writing since the mid-70s but with new fans – like Lena Dunham – she’s become one of 2015’s most celebrated literary starsFor someone so indelibly associated with the East...
View ArticleBy Our Selves review – disturbing journey through John Clare's poetry
Andrew Kötting recreates scenes of the fascinating and melancholy 90-mile walk undertaken in 1841 by the nature poet John Clare, in a bizarre documentaryFilm-maker Andrew Kötting again takes...
View ArticlePoster poems: parody
Parodies range from the sweetly celebratory to the viciously unforgiving. So sharpen your quills – it’s time to deliver poetic justiceOne of the marks of the serious poet is that they develop a unique,...
View ArticleStephen Hawking demonstrates Relativity for National Poetry Day
Bridget Smith’s film of the physicist reading Sarah Howe’s poem is part of a star-studded project hoping to inspire readers to explore light through poetry Physicist Stephen Hawking and actors Samantha...
View ArticleThe Saturday poem: The Lion
by Mona Arshi, from Small Hands, which won the Forward prize for best first collectionHow unstable and old he is now.Lion, like God, has snacks sent upby means of a pulley. Althoughyou can never master...
View ArticleMy hero: Claudia Rankine by Sandeep Parmar
The Forward prizewinner’s portrait of racism in the US is not just realistic, it captures a poetic truth beyond factsClaudia Rankine’s collection of tense lyric essays Citizen this week won the Forward...
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From the perfect LBD at Boden to a burger that will have you licking your fingers, here are six things that will make your week a lot betterContinue reading...
View ArticleA firefighter, a physicist and a fire dancer read poems about light
Finding a firefighter willing to read a poem was not the easiest task, poet Liz Brownlee found, when she started searching for people whose lives are involved some way in light to be filmed reading...
View ArticleJulian Barnes: in praise of James Fenton
As poet James Fenton accepts this year’s PEN Pinter prize, awarded for verse that has spoken ‘truth to power’, his friend Julian Barnes celebrates his ‘deeply particular alloy of gravity and...
View ArticleNephew of Pablo Neruda claims Chilean poet was murdered
New bacterial evidence proves Neruda was murdered by the Pinochet regime says Rodolfo Reyes – however, other family members remain unconvincedPablo Neruda’s nephew has become the first member of the...
View ArticleJohn Cooper Clarke's poem for the UK coast released for National Poetry Day
The National Trust-commissioned Nation’s Ode to the Coast was written by Cooper Clarke – with help from the British public – and is a celebration of time and tide, and bucket and spadeHe can’t swim and...
View ArticleMichael Rosen reads Boing! Boing!
Watch Michael Rosen read his new poem ‘Boing! Boing!’ from A Great Big Cuddle: Poems for the Very YoungContinue reading...
View ArticleNational Poetry Day: readers dedicate poems to babies, partners, friends and...
We asked you help us celebrate National Poetry Day by sending us readings of your favourite poems. Here are some of our favourite videosLike these? Add your own and check out the rest on...
View ArticleFoyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2015 - read the winning poems
On Poetry Day, savour the 15 glorious winning entries from this year’s Foyle Young Poets competition and see if you can spot the famous poets of the futureEvery year, 15 young people across the country...
View ArticleTop 10 poems about light
On National Poetry day, 10 poets picks their favourite poems about light. Read them all hereRelated: Welcome to our poetry-themed week - an overviewRelated: Top poetry writing tips: Rachel...
View ArticleCelebrate Poetry Day with Joseph Coelho - children's books podcast
Prepare to be thrilled as Joseph Coelho performs poems from his prize-winning collection, Werewolf Club Rules, and offers his suggestions for your own poetry writing Continue reading...
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