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Poetry

September 2024

  • Mahogany Opera’s production of Rolf Hind’s Sky in a Small Cage at the Barbican, London.

    Sky in a Small Cage review – beauty and bafflement in opera inspired by Sufi mystic Rumi

  • Newspaper article clippings from the time, Aberfan disaster 1966

    Carol Rumens's poem of the week
    Poem of the week: The Journalist by Grahame Davies

  • A closeup of Lindsey Hilsum wearing a military helmet and body armour.

    ‘After Rwanda, I felt I needed philosophical more than psychological help’: journalist Lindsey Hilsum on war and the consolation of poetry

  • Portrait of the poet Raymond Antrobus

    On my radar
    On my radar: Raymond Antrobus’s cultural highlights

  • Poetry roundup
    The best recent poetry – review roundup

  • Surréalisme review – monstrous, deviant, glorious fun as the movement hits 100

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

  • 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’

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