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The best recent poetry

A bucolic county in upstate New York appointed a poet laureate. Why was she fired shortly after?

Lost copy of seventh-century poem in Old English discovered at Rome library

‘Extraordinary and original poet’ JH Prynne dies aged 89

John Keats’s love letters returned to owner after being stolen in the 1980s

From Manifesto to Mr Loverman: Bernardine Evaristo’s best books

‘The Moon and The Zoo’: Simon Armitage poem celebrates 200 years of ZSL

‘Every time I write, I doubt myself’: Michael Rosen at 80 on deep grief, self-belief and chocolate cake

Kae Tempest on creativity and his gender transition: ‘I’m just glad to be alive’

Discussed on r/indieheads

Winners and judges out of pocket as £20,000 writing awards appear to have closed

Lost Federico García Lorca verse discovered 93 years after it was written

The Possibility of Tenderness by Jason Allen-Paisant audiobook review – meditations on nature and belonging

Michael Rosen wins Hans Christian Andersen award

Two for two? Stella prize winner Evelyn Araluen nominated again for second poetry collection

The best recent poetry

‘The manosphere is dead and no one cares about Andrew Tate any more’: the poet taking on toxic masculinity

The best theatre to stream this month: Patrick Stewart reads Shakespeare’s sonnets

‘African people are surreal’: songwriter and blues poet Aja Monet on Black resistance and love as spiritual warfare

Richard Meier obituary

Daunting, inspiring, comforting, terrifying: the writers who can make silence as eloquent as words

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