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Poetry Trust closure puts Aldeburgh poetry festival in doubt

Literature body blames ‘difficult funding situation in the arts’ as it announces restructuring hiatus in bid to protect long-running Suffolk festivalThe future of the long-running Aldeburgh poetry...

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A poet and he didn't know it: Donald Trump's speeches go on sale as poetry book

The speeches, interviews and tweets of the Republican presidential candidate have been made into a book of verse, Bard of the Deal The interviews, speeches and tweets of outspoken...

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Poster poems: ice

The element of frozen hell and hopeless waters, the indifferent heart and the chill hand of loss. Thaw out your imagination and submit your ice-capped rimesThe first frost of winter is one of the...

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Young Muslim writers awards: celebrating a more diverse creative voice

Tomorrow sees the announcement of the winners of the Young Muslim Writers awards, a rare opportunity for schoolchildren to express themselves against negative media portrayalsFourteen-year-old Shebana...

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The soul-nurturing power of a windhover in the hills

Crymych, Pembrokeshire There’s a spaciousness, an atmosphere about Preseli that enchantsGreen paths through heather, low sun picking out tints of its late flowering, led to the ramparts of Foel...

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William McIlvanney obituary

Scottish novelist and poet whose stories of the philosophical Glasgow police detective Jack Laidlaw made him ‘the godfather of tartan noir’William McIlvanney, who has died aged 79, grew into the title...

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Poem of the week: What is Man? by Waldo Williams, translated by Rowan Williams

A Welsh poem, translated by the former Archbishop of Canterbury, uses the form of catechism to gently address some universal dilemmasWhat is Man?What is living? The broad hall foundbetween narrow...

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Christopher Middleton obituary

Poet and translator inspired by travels in Turkey who translated works from German, French, Turkish and SpanishIn 1966 the poet, translator and essayist Christopher Middleton, who has died aged 89,...

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Philip Larkin is far from forgotten in Hull | Letters

What a pity that Mike Godwin (Letters, 3 December) spent the 30th anniversary of Philip Larkin’s death on a lonely pilgrimage to Larkin’s grave in Cottingham. If only he had thought a bit about it, he...

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The best poetry books of 2015

From Clive James’s Sentenced to Life to Andrew McMillan’s Physical and Claudia Rankine’s Citizen – this year’s poetry roundupBest of culture in 2015:see this year’s cultural highlights, chosen by the...

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The True Traveller: A Reader by WH Davies review – on the road with the Welsh...

WH Davies may have been restless, but he also knew how to stand still and appreciate the world. It’s a good combination for a writerThe Welsh poet and author WH Davies spent much of his life on the...

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Authors urge China to release Nobel prize winner on seventh anniversary of...

Poet and human rights activist Liu Xiaobo, who was represented by an empty chair at his 2010 Nobel prize ceremony, was detained in 2008 and sentenced to 11 years in prisonMargaret Atwood and Ian Rankin...

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'The rebellion came': Watts Prophet Otis O'Solomon on race, revolution and rap

Fifty years since the Watts riots kickstarted his experimental spoken word group, poet and proto-rapper Otis O’Solomon reflects on the anger that drove thousands to the streets – and whether anything...

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The Seasons: the Nation’s Most Treasured Nature Poems review – a soothing...

From Philip Larkin to Alice Oswald, this collection drawn from Radio 4’s Poetry Please lures with the familiar then hooks with the newForget for a moment what you know about books and their covers, and...

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Poet Sarah Howe named young writer of the year

Half-Chinese author’s debut collection Loop of Jade, exploring her dual heritage, praised by judges as ‘a work of astonishing originality’Sarah Howe has been named young writer of the year for a...

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All of the best books of 2015

Fiction, food, biographies, sport... the best books of the year as selected by critics and authors for the Guardian and the ObserverContinue reading...

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Kylie Minogue's partner reads erotic poem to her on Desert Island Discs

During singer’s emotional appearance, Joshua Sasse reads work written by his father, the late poet Dominic Sasse Kylie Minogue’s new partner, the British actor Joshua Sasse, is to surprise her by...

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Lemn Sissay: ‘We sneaked into the larder one night and had a midnight food...

The poet remembers a childhood with foster parents and in a children’s home, and how he now tries to give good food memories to other kids in careMy strict Baptist foster parents, who were white and...

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Poem of the week: Silkworms Work and Love Till Death by Peter Porter

Considering his vocation in old age, the poet reflects wryly on what he can expect from a lifetime’s workSilkworms Work and Love Till DeathHe kept a list of poems there were to write,A personal list,...

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Poet returns Stephen Spender prize after accusations of plagiarism

Dutch poetry site claims Allen Prowle’s translations of Rutger Kopland are ‘blatant plagiarism’Following accusations of plagiarism, the winner of the Stephen Spender prize for poetry in translation has...

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