Jai Verma obituary

Other lives: Writer and cross-cultural organiser who founded the multilingual Kavya Rang poetry group in Nottingham

Paul Durcan obituary

Irish poet whose work dealt with misogyny, cruelty and bigotry, but could also be caustically hilarious

Alasdair MacIntyre obituary

Provocative philosopher who argued that current morality has been cut off from its roots ‘largely thanks to the Enlightenment’

John Fletcher obituary

Other lives: Literary scholar and academic who had a long friendship and correspondence with the Irish playwright Samuel Beckett

Ronald Atkins obituary

Guardian jazz critic for over 30 years who also contributed widely to respected music books

Michael Allaby obituary

Other lives: Ecological thinker who wrote 100 books on the environment, including A Blueprint for Survival with Edward Goldsmith

Joseph Nye obituary

US international affairs scholar who pointed to soft power as a complement to military and economic might

Peter Lovesey obituary

Crime writer known for his ‘history-mystery’ series about the Victorian detective Sergeant Cribb

June Goodfield obituary

Other lives: Scientist, historian, writer and film-maker who forged a role for herself at the interface between science and society

Neil Hornick obituary

Other lives: Co-founder and long-serving artistic director of the Phantom Captain experimental theatre company