Mouth by Mona Arshi; The Anchorage by Bernard O’Donoghue; Guaracara by Fawzia Muradali Kane; Bunting’s Honey by Moya Cannon; Old World by Robert Crawford; Joy Is My Middle Name by Sasha Debevec-McKenney Mouth by Mona Arshi (Chatto &...
(Island Records) Despair runs through the Londoner’s fifth album but, in what is essentially a love letter to the trans community, his home town and partner, a hard-won beauty breaks through On a track called Bless the Bold Future, Kae...
Dylan Thomas’s evocative radio play has been adapted into films, a ballet, even a jazz suite. From its drunkards and nosey-parkers, to its ghosts and dreamers, Ninfea Crutwell-Reade’s new reimagining connects it back to its origins In...
Supporting writers is nation-building work, and expectations are high for the new body with its re-inaugurated poet laureate Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email Writing Australia, Creative Australia’s new literature body,...
A drunk old man’s report of sighting an angel opens on to much broader mysteries Nest Box When the drunken old fool saw the barn owl, Continue reading...
Award, to be shared between poet and translator, is a joint project by three publishers and will give a $3,000 advance for a new collection A new poetry prize for collections translated into English is opening for entries next month....
A generous and warm ecofeminist vision of the labours of motherhood The Song of Arachnid Webs are small and spacious as simplicity, See-through as a summer’s day, old-fashioned as A slip of butter-muslin, girlhood’s own, or A cotton...
My friend Angela Livingstone, who has died aged 90, was a translator and university teacher of literature known for playing a key role in making the most innovative works of 20th-century Russian literature accessible to the...
The Golden Record – launched in 1977 on the Voyager space probes – contained everything from Chuck Berry to Chinese dialects and the sound of humpback whales. But what would we put on it today? It’s almost 50 years since one of the...
The politician, who’s been labeled ‘too progressive, too Black’ in the race for New Jersey governor, reflects on Trump, immigration and the power of poetry It took about two minutes for Ras Baraka to be propelled from being a relatively...
A statue of the mythological father of poetry becomes an image of the declining authority of the art form Hermes by Gabriele Tinti What you were waiting for has gone. You are sad and unable to separate yourself Continue reading...
Pitlochry Festival theatre Richard Baron and Ellie Zeegen’s play follows the writer from wide-eyed child discovering nature in rural Scotland to feisty care-home resident The title comes from a short story about two hikers on a camping...
Ahead of Refugee Week, we round up entertaining stories, poems and nonfiction to help children of all ages learn about refugees and gain understanding Want your kids to have a better understanding of people seeking sanctuary? Ahead of...
Southernmost: Sonnets by Leo Boix; An Interesting Detail by Kimberly Campanello; Autobiography of Death by Kim Hyesoon; Goonie by Michael Mullen; The Age of Olive Trees by Haia Mohammed Southernmost: Sonnets by Leo Boix (Chatto &...
‘Timely’ essay collection explores identity, religion and colonialism as Nathanael Lessore takes children’s and young adult prize and Mimi Khalvati wins for poetry British-Palestinian writer NS Nuseibeh has won the Jhalak prose prize for...
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.