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Poetry

September 2024

  • Palestinian residents and civil defence teams carry out search and rescue operations after the Israeli army attacked the Safad School in Gaza.

    Carol Rumens's poem of the week
    Poem of the week: […] by Fady Joudah

  • Mani at a pro-democracy demonstration in Kabul in 2016

    Mani once sang of freedom in Afghanistan. Now, silenced, she’s desperate to escape. Will Australia help?

    Shadi Khan Saif

August 2024

  • Gender-neutral gay American award winning poet Danez Smith in Manchester

    Bluff by Danez Smith review – ‘Afropessimism’ as an artform

  • gold opera glasses studio cutout

    Carol Rumens's poem of the week
    Poem of the week: When you Wake you’ll Believe you are a Theatre Critic by Aaron Kent

  • Ali Cobby Eckermann

    A poem by Ali Cobby Eckermann: ‘The entire continent is sacred land’

  • A portrait of the English writer and academic, JRR Tolkien (1892-1973), from about 1938.

    Beyond Bilbo: JRR Tolkien’s long-lost poetry to be published

  • Carol Rumens's poem of the week
    Poem of the week: The Art of Cloying by ZR Ghani

  • A poem by Lang Leav: ‘Cabramatta was dubbed Australia’s drug capital. But it was also a place of refuge’

  • Book of the day
    Survival Is a Promise by Alexis Pauline Gumbs review – a cosmic perspective on Audre Lorde

  • ‘A true multi-sensory experience’: the Met celebrates Japanese poetry, calligraphy and painting

  • Carol Rumens's poem of the week
    Poem of the week: Sudanese Saying by Pierre Joris

  • A poem by Jazz Money: ‘There are times I want to run away but I know my responsibility is to the here and now’

  • Carol Rumens's poem of the week
    Poem of the week: Ceremony by Christopher Arksey

  • A poem by Paul Kelly: ‘My lyrics are often stolen from songs, poems, novels, conversations’

  • ‘Time to reflect’: writer in residence carves out inspiration at Brimham Rocks

  • 10 Chaotic Questions
    Simon Armitage: ‘You’re not going to get me to say anything bad about any bird’

  • The Guardian view on reclaiming the Seine: hope for 21st century rivers

  • Poetry roundup
    The best recent poetry – review roundup

  • Meshell Ndegeocello: No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin review – a fire reignited

July 2024

  • Cornu aspersum (the Common garden snail) in a garden in Bexleytheath, Kent

    Brief letters
    Life in the fast lane for snails this year

    Brief letters: Year of the snail | Poetic pylons | Hilary Mantel | Poo bag premium | Difficult decisions
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