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No trolls allowed: Seattle advertises a writing residency … in a bridge

The US city’s transport department offers $10,000 for a ‘unique’ residency in a bridge tower – in return for ‘an in-depth exploration’ of the spaceThe city of Seattle is seeking a writer for a unique...

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Dylan Thomas copyright claims thrown out by Irish court

Man suffers double blow after suing Welsh government over use of historic images and bringing libel case against photographer’s 93-year-old widowAn Irish court has thrown out a case taken against the...

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TS Eliot prize row: is winner too young, beautiful - and Chinese?

Poet Sarah Howe’s 2016 TS Eliot prize win has been questioned by a sexist and sceptical literary press, but as the activity around the #derangedpoetess hashtag shows, we poets have had enoughThe boys...

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The Saturday Poem: Leaving the Office

by Douglas DunnFor FrancesSomehow it all gets done and over with–The office emptied of its archival dross,Papers re-read, and chucked, the years of breathRe-breathed, moment by moment. Why feel crossAt...

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Was Robert Burns really a radical?

Written at a time of political repression, were Robert Burns’s late poems covertly radical, or are contemporary academics reading their own leftist values into history? Murray Armstrong on the battle...

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Poem of the week: Chainsaw by John Kinsella

Close focus on the raw machinery of cutting wood ramifies to a much grander meditation on humanity’s treatment of the natural worldChainsawThe seared flesh of wood, cutto a polish, deceives: the rip...

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Tips, links and suggestions: what are you reading this week?

Your space to discuss the books you are reading and what you think of themAre you on Instagram? Then you can be featured here by tagging your books-related posts with #GuardianBooksScroll down for our...

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The Saturday Poem: Storm

by Maureen DuffyHow you would have hated this storm, the lightning dashand bomb-blast of thunder, and I would have hurriedhome from school so you shouldn’t be aloneto find you crouched behind a door,...

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Beauty/Beauty by Rebecca Perry review – curiosity, clumsiness and charm

Mythical beasts, ergonomic desks and awkward adolescence in a wry and chatty debutSasquatches, dinosaurs, buried animals in a pet cemetery: Rebecca Perry’s poems are filled with creatures we can never...

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Interference Pattern by JO Morgan review – bracingly original poetry

The award-winning poet addresses everything from bullies to the big bang in a stimulating new collectionJO Morgan’s new collection requires and rewards repeated attention. Rereading poetry goes with...

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Poem of the week: Casida of the Dead Sun by Rebecca Perry

Using Lorca to riff on a humble, homely scene, these short verses thread together some unsettling thoughts on endings Casida of the Dead Sun the earth reedless, a pure form,closed to the futureFederico...

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Embarking on an epic: Homer's Iliad for February's Reading group

The motherlode of western literature has kept readers and translators busy for 3,000 years. Now it’s our turnThis month on the Reading group – deep breath – we’re going for the big one: the Iliad. The...

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Palestinian poet Ashraf Fayadh's death sentence quashed by Saudi court

Panel of judges downgrades punishment for apostasy conviction to eight years in prison and 800 lashesA Saudi court has overturned the death sentence of a Palestinian poet accused of renouncing Islam,...

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William Wordsworth's 'daffodils' cottage set for £5m improvement grant

Dove Cottage in Grasmere will use fund to improve displays, lighting and access to garden he and sister Dorothy loved A grant of almost £5m will be announced this week by the Heritage Lottery Fund to...

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The anchored terset: can you write a poem in three words?

A radically condensed form of poetry, using just three words, is being piloted for National Libraries Day. CanItLast?It’s not often that I’m moved to verse, but it’s also not often that I hear of...

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Poster poems: Didactic verse

It’s not much practised, but there’s a strong tradition of how-to poems, from Virgil to Henry Reed. So this month it’s your turn to teach The question of what poetry is for is one that has as many...

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Complete Poems by RF Langley review – subtlety and flashes of clarity found...

From moth wings to artists’ brushstrokes, this is work that celebrates the effort of close scrutiny“This month the lemon, I’ll say/ primrose-coloured, moths, which flinch/ along the hedge then turn in/...

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The Saturday poem: Zoi

by Fiona Sampson Evening star, bringing back everything the bright dawn scattered– SAPPHOPerfectly at homestreet dog the colourof coffee you forgetyourself leaning on meContinue reading...

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On my radar: Hollie McNish’s cultural highlights

The poet on the Shambala festival, the magic of Withered Hand, Laura Dudsworth’s Bare Reality and an inspiring visit to a Roman fortHollie McNish was born in Reading in 1983 to Scottish parents....

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TS Eliot letters reveal anguish over failure of first marriage

Correspondence to be published this month challenges view that poet was cold towards his wife Vivien as she suffered mental illnessTS Eliot’s desperation to escape the “hideous farce” of his first...

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