Brolin’s verses about Timothée Chalamet and Florence Pugh have now found their way into a London art gallery in the form of Dune: Exposures When it comes to pretension, Dune isn’t exactly left wanting. In print, the books are a...
Grief rubs shoulders with greasy chip pans in a humorous and heartfelt celebration of the coastal working class An ode to fish and chips, corn dollies and driving Ringtons tea vans, Wendy Pratt’s seventh poetry collection is a greasy but...
Orlando Reade’s fascinating study of John Milton’s famous work, through the eyes of myriad readers from Malcolm X to white supremacists, shows how it has provoked the widest range of responses and interpretations In Dan Brown’s thriller...
The poet also wrote the lyrics for the Astro Boy theme song and translated Peanuts into Japanese Shuntaro Tanikawa, who pioneered modern Japanese poetry , poignant but conversational in its divergence from haiku and other traditions, has...
Findings suggest non-expert poetry readers who participated preferred AI works because they find them more straightforward and accessible Poems written by AI are preferred to those written by humans, according to a new study. The...
An oblique elegy for the poet’s brother is addressed to his great-niece with some friendly information about the life of tadpoles Renacuajos For Mia Continue reading...
Creative writers might do better writing short prose pieces for newspapers or other media, says John Quicke While I agree that clarity about the climate crisis can sometimes be “lost in a blizzard of scientific data”, poetry is surely...
As Ukraine remains under Russian bombardment and the election of Trump adds a new level of fear, its residents are turning to the power of literature to console and inspire in even the darkest days As a film-maker and a poet, I like...
His house was bombed and his relatives killed, before he escaped to the US. Now he is on a relentless, restless drive to tell the stories of all those left behind This time last year, Mosab Abu Toha was standing in a queue waiting to...
An émigré player’s artistry sings through a London street, rising over many barriers The Kurdish Musician She is swaddled in pink, sky-blue and veiled in a gold hejab that with every chime of her santoor dangles its fringe where trailed...
Verse’s connection to nature can inspire awareness and hope amid the climate crisis, offering clarity beyond data Poetry has a big debt to nature, its muse and source of metaphor for centuries. As the UN climate conference begins,...
The Triumph of Life | Big head | Too much Trump? | Spellchecking Badenoch | Johnson’s fiction It is always a pleasure to read Pass Notes ( Live, Laugh, Love signs: the worst interiors trend of all time?, 5 November ). Shelley’s line “I...
Levy reflects on the creative women who have inspired her, in essays that range from the trivial to the profound ‘It is a writing adventure to go in deep, then deeper, and then to play with surface so that we become experts at...
May I add to the obituary of Fleur Adcock by mentioning her many collaborations with the composer Dame Gillian Whitehead, her friend and fellow New Zealander? They met in 1979 and were to collaborate seven times. Notable were the two...
A minor tumble in the street gives a small indication of the larger risks a couple face and the consolations of mutual support My husband falling Time trips you like a pavement, says I’ll show you what falling’s for . It’s a stony lesson...
My sister Jehane Markham, who has died aged 75, was a playwright who wrote for radio, television and theatre. She also had her poetry published in five of her own collections. Jehane’s original BBC Radio 4 plays included More Cherry Cake...
The writer and academic on stories and poetry from Gaza, an exhibition of friendship, and the cat rescue website she prefers to dating apps Born and raised in Pakistan, Noreen Masud is a lecturer in 20th-century literature at Bristol...
An Arbitrary Light Bulb by Ian Duhig; What the Earth Seemed to Say by Marie Howe; Collected Poems by Mimi Khalvati; Ceremony for the Nameless by Theresa Lola; Girl by Ruth Padel An Arbitrary Light B ulb by Ian Duhig (Picador, £12.99 )...
Reflecting outward from minimal geometry, the poet renders large events at a granular scale Two poems from At the Dimensional Border In our battle to be rational, we posit, based on three points, a plane, and say it extends — not knowing...
Poets, artists, playwrights and musicians are fighting and dying in Ukraine, and their work is capturing the horror and emotion of the conflict Yaryna Chornohuz is a poised, thoughtful young woman with a sweep of long hair, elegantly...
When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through collects the work of more than 160 poets. "A poem opens up time, it opens up memory, it opens up place," says Harjo, U.S. Poet Laureate.