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Poetry

August 2024

  • Audre Lorde at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach, Florida in 1983.

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

  • ink painting of a smiling man in robes

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

  • Sudanese Saying by Pierre Joris

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

  • Jazz Money, poet

    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

  • a Phoenician terracotta mask.

    Carol Rumens's poem of the week
    Poem of the week: Phoenician by Angela Leighton

  • Gboyega Odubanjo - poet

    Adam by Gboyega Odubanjo review – in memory of the missing

  • The writer Edna O’Brien

    Irish author Edna O’Brien dies aged 93

  • Thom Gunn by Michael Nott review – sex, drugs and San Francisco

  • Book of the day
    Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life by Michael Nott review – the poet laureate of Haight-Ashbury

  • Carol Rumens's poem of the week
    Poem of the week: Moor by Kathleen Jamie

  • Australian arts in focus
    ‘My God, how courageous’: the British choirboys taking on an Indigenous family’s painful story

  • Carol Rumens's poem of the week
    Poem of the week: Highland Daunder by Jeda Pearl

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