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Poet and scholar who promoted the work of John Ruskin and edited a selection of Thom Gunn’s essays Clive Wilmer, who has died from a stroke aged 80, was a poet and scholar best known for his advocacy of the work of the Victorian artist...Monday, April 7, 2025 from Poetry | The Guardian
A strategically flattering tribute to a pioneering female writer is lifted by authentic warmth and admiration A Sonnet to the Noble Lady, the Lady Mary Wroth I that have been a lover, and could show it, Though not in these, in rithmes...Friday, April 4, 2025 from Poetry | The Guardian
Dante’s Inferno by Lorna Goodison; Wellwater by Karen Solie; Chaotic Good by Isabelle Baafi; Find Me As the Creature I Am by Emily Jungmin Yoon; Ecstasy by Alex Dimitrov Dante’s Inferno by Lorna Goodison (Carcanet, £16.99) More than 20...Friday, April 4, 2025 from Poetry | The Guardian
My friend John Seed, who has died aged 74, was an author of poetry and history books and a long-serving lecturer at what is now the University of Roehampton. He was also an associate editor of Social History journal. Continue reading...Thursday, April 3, 2025 from Poetry | The Guardian
The poet and writer returns to the May Day mountains in a gentle rumination on family and nature Go these days to any independent bookshop or art gallery or zine fair, and you may find yourself asking: where are the humans? Title after...Monday, March 31, 2025 from Poetry | The Guardian
A breezy but ambiguous allegory arranges its symbols with appealing wit Digging the Well On our plot between the river and the railroad track, there is a well. We discovered it by chance — weeds had covered all but a sliver of its rim...Friday, March 28, 2025 from Poetry | The Guardian
Season three offers up clues to characters’ psyches – or perhaps their fates – by showing us their holiday reads They say never judge a book by its cover, but some viewers of The White Lotus have been doing exactly that. Online...Monday, March 24, 2025 from Poetry | The Guardian
Fiona Larkin’s poem uses Finnish grammar to explore her feelings about her son’s move from the UK to Brisbane A poem inspired by the writer’s experience missing her son after he moved from the UK to Australia has won this year’s £5,000...Monday, March 24, 2025 from Poetry | The Guardian
A swan appears to sing the aurora borealis into existence in this visionary nature poem with an unexpected war connection The Stopover A swan sings. From the marshes’ far reaches, its sharp call rings in a coppery snare of cymbals....Saturday, March 22, 2025 from Poetry | The Guardian
The Jamaican-born author on exploring nature and black identity in his nonfiction debut, his chaotic writing habits, and how the TS Eliot prize changed his life J ason Allen-Paisant , born in Jamaica in 1980, is a poet, writer and...Tuesday, March 18, 2025 from Poetry | The Guardian
Featuring interviews and archive footage of the brilliant civil rights activist, the readings of her poems will have the hairs on the back of your neck standing up Nikki Giovanni, bestselling American poet and civil rights activist,...Monday, March 17, 2025 from Poetry | The Guardian
A remarkable piece of oratory records without explicit comment the stark social divisions of an unequal world The Proletariat Speaks I love beautiful things: Great trees, bending green winged branches to a velvet lawn, Fountains...Thursday, March 13, 2025 from Poetry | The Guardian
Musician, actor and poet who drew on cultural influences from reggae to European poetry in his Welsh-language work Geraint Jarman, who has died aged 74, was an influential figure in the arts in Wales, as a musician, poet, actor and...Monday, March 10, 2025 from Poetry | The Guardian
This delicate portrait of a group of women to whom life and time have not been kind is free from mockery or judgment The ghost of Ninon would be sorry now To laugh at them, were she to see them here, So brave and so alert for learning...Sunday, March 9, 2025 from Poetry | The Guardian
Bereaved come together to commemorate those who died and pay tribute to health workers Bereaved families and communities came together in a day of reflection on Sunday to mark five years since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. Towns...Wednesday, March 5, 2025 from Poetry | The Guardian
Kings Park, Perth, then touring Australia In the British polymath’s first Australian show in eight years, she performs a haunting, theatrical tribute to Dorset, where she grew up Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email The ghostly...Monday, March 3, 2025 from Poetry | The Guardian
The conversational plainness of this monologue carries with it intense feeling The Widow’s Lament in Springtime Sorrow is my own yard where the new grass flames as it has flamed often before but not with the cold fire that closes round...Sunday, March 2, 2025 from Poetry | The Guardian
The poet-prophet shows us how to sustain hope and redemption in the wake of political defeat ‘Is this pessimism?”, TJ Clark asks in his 2012 essay For a Left with No Future . “Well, yes.” How else, he wonders, “are we meant to...Friday, February 28, 2025 from Poetry | The Guardian
New and Collected Hell by Shane McCrae; The New Carthaginians by Nick Makoha; Father’s Father’s Father by Dane Holt; Hardly War by Don Mee Choi; Minx by Karen Downs-Barton New and Collected Hell by Shane McCrae (Corsair, £12.99) This...Thursday, February 27, 2025 from Poetry | The Guardian
The Marches, Shropshire : On a windswept day with wild energy in the skies, something is happening out on the heath Spectral rain dogs chase through the wind across Old Racecourse Common above Oswestry. So much energy in the sky, so much...Saturday, September 12, 2020 from Poetry
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.Monday, March 2, 2020 from Poetry Magazine
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