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The writers, philosophers and politicians who have raided Milton’s epic poem for inspiration In 1818 Mary Shelley published Frankenstein, the story of a man who trespasses on God’s turf by crafting a new form of life. She took its...Monday, December 23, 2024 from Poetry | The Guardian
A still potent vision of a Glasgow family in poverty at the end of the 19th century, clinging on to hope Villanelle On her hand she leans her head By the banks of the busy Clyde; Our two little boys are in bed. Continue reading...Sunday, December 22, 2024 from Poetry | The Guardian
The long-awaited return of Ruth Jones and James Corden’s hit BBC sitcom represents the latest in a long line of successful creative duos. An author who writes with her husband examines why partnerships work so well On Christmas Day, fans...Wednesday, December 18, 2024 from Poetry | The Guardian
My friend Mick (Michael) Felton, who has died aged 67 of cancer, was a publisher, a fierce advocate for literature in Wales and for nearly 40 years worked to promote original poetry, fiction, memoirs, psychogeography and criticism. He...Monday, December 16, 2024 from Poetry | The Guardian
It is probably wrong to touch, even gently, these creatures. But even now I find it difficult to resist In her book Theatres of Glass, Rebecca Stott writes about the Victorian craze for home aquariums – which swept London in the 1850s,...Monday, December 16, 2024 from Poetry | The Guardian
The breezy wit of this nature study lightly carries darker thoughts about the human world The Jackdaw There is a bird, who by his coat, And by the hoarseness of his note, Might be supposed a crow; A great frequenter of the church, Where...Saturday, December 14, 2024 from Poetry | The Guardian
One of the foremost poets of the Black arts movement died on Monday but continues to inspire her literary children “We are the culture bearers of planet Earth,” Nikki Giovanni said in 1978 on American Black Journal, a Detroit TV program....Thursday, December 12, 2024 from Poetry | The Guardian
Just in time for your Christmas shopping: Guardian Australia’s critics and staff pick out the best of the best Which Australian books did you love this year? Join us in the comments Fiction, Penguin, $49.99 (hardback) Continue reading...Tuesday, December 10, 2024 from Poetry | The Guardian
Nikki Giovanni, born in Knoxville, Tennessee, on 7 June 1943, was a critically acclaimed poet, educator and activist whose work was pivotal to the Black Arts movement and the Black Power movement. Giovanni attended her grandfather’s alma...Tuesday, December 10, 2024 from Poetry | The Guardian
The poet, who died at 81 on Monday , was a leading figure of the Black Arts movement, writing at the intersection of love, creativity, gender, race and more Nikki Giovanni’s poetry was a platform for truth-telling Nikki Giovanni, the...Tuesday, December 10, 2024 from Poetry | The Guardian
There was a directness and urgency in her spoken and written voice but she could be mischievous and funny too • Nikki Giovanni, acclaimed poet of the Black Arts Movement, dies aged 81 Nikki Giovanni was the epitome of what we Jamaicans...Tuesday, December 10, 2024 from Poetry | The Guardian
The author and academic was killed in an Israeli airstrike a year ago. A posthumous collection of his work, If I Must Die, tells the stories of Gaza in a plea for change In the face of siege and war in Gaza, the writer and educator...Tuesday, December 10, 2024 from Poetry | The Guardian
The award-winning US poet and author of works like Black Feeling, Black Talk and Those Who Ride the Night Winds has died after a third cancer diagnosis Nikki Giovanni, the award-winning US poet who emerged as one of the leading voices of...Monday, December 9, 2024 from Poetry | The Guardian
A sonnet about disappointed love is enlivened by a large imagination and technical fluency of great vitality I know that all beneath the moon decays I know that all beneath the moon decays, And what by mortals in this world is brought,...Sunday, December 8, 2024 from Poetry | The Guardian
From a radical retelling of Huckleberry Finn to Al Pacino’s autobiography, novelists and nonfiction writers reveal the books they will be giving as gifts – and the volumes they would love to find in their own stocking Illustrations by...Tuesday, December 3, 2024 from Poetry | The Guardian
As new national poet, the Gaelic speaker is looking at all of the languages spoken in the country, to see ‘what we can learn between them’ Peter Mackay seems to write poetry as he speaks. An island, he ponders, “can be seen as bounded by...Tuesday, December 3, 2024 from Poetry | The Guardian
The joy of house parties, an email to an estate agent, tales from a billionaire’s dolls and more In 2024 politics has been inescapable for many poets, a retreat from the world impossible, particularly from the Israel-Gaza war. This...Monday, December 2, 2024 from Poetry | The Guardian
A wintry vision of the separation of two lovers gains fresh energy from the verse’s roots in folk song In Drear Nighted December In drear nighted December, Too happy, happy tree, Thy branches ne’er remember Their green felicity — The...Sunday, December 1, 2024 from Poetry | The Guardian
The 13th-century poet’s resolution to articulate his grief is a reminder to us of the power of literature, particularly in our most trying times Making sense of it is a column about spirituality and how it can be used to navigate...Saturday, November 30, 2024 from Poetry | The Guardian
Work first in a series from poet laureate about wildlife that exists in the Lost Gardens of Heligan A new haiku by the poet laureate Simon Armitage has appeared on a garden wall in Cornwall, the first of a series of pieces celebrating...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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