Poem of the week: from At the Dimensional Border by Philip Fried
Reflecting outward from minimal geometry, the poet renders large events at a granular scale
John Keats statue to be unveiled near his birthplace in London’s Moorgate
Martin Jennings – whose previous public sculptures include John Betjeman, George Orwell and Philip Larkin – has based his bronze on a life cast of the poet, taken when he was 21
The Colour of Extinction by SC Flynn review – into the darkness… or the light?
Pulsating with tidal energy, the Dublin-based poet’s imaginative first collection is a harrowing wake-up call shot through with optimism
British Academy to pay tribute to Benjamin Zephaniah at live event
Poetry in protest event on 30 October will showcase how political change can be explored through verse
Poem of the week: The Hottentot Venus Hails Botticelli’s on the High Seas by Dzifa Benson
The ghost of a black African woman whose body was abusively exhibited for white Europeans directs her own gaze to a different ideal of beauty
Fleur Adcock obituary
One of the leading New Zealand and British poets of her generation who was fascinated by the past and ancestral voices
K-pop, K-movies, a Nobel prize … and now K-poetry: book of wise words adds to Korea’s cultural glory
After Han Kang’s Nobel award and South Korean cinema hits, Penguin publishes new English edition of maxims by Lee Seong-bok in wake of US success
Poem of the week: The Silent Space by Adrian Rice
The Northern Irish poet recounts his young son Micah’s audiological investigation and introduces us to another son who is also a poet
May Day by Jackie Kay audiobook review – family, love and activism
The Scottish author and poet is a warm, wry companion in an autobiographical collection of poems, written in the aftermath of her parents’ deaths
Forward poetry prize goes to Victoria Chang for collection inspired by painter Agnes Martin
Chang’s With My Back to the World takes the main £10,000 award while Marjorie Lotfi, Cindy Juyoung Ok and Leyla Josephine top other categories – making it an all-female winners list
Poem of the week: from The War Prayer by Mark Twain
This accidental prose poem is an apparently sacred address to group of young soldiers, which makes blisteringly clear what is being asked of God
The best recent poetry – review roundup
Collected Poems by Wendy Cope; Eat the World by Marina Diamandis; Unwritten Woman by Hannah Lavery; Agimat by Romalyn Ante; Monster by Dzifa Benson
‘I want space for jokes’: how film-maker Iryna Tsilyk captures surreal life in Ukraine
Audiences in flak jackets queued to hear the poet and director on a tour of pounded cities. She talks about depicting life during war, from air raid alerts to hesitating between pinot or zinfandel in the supermarket
TS Eliot prize for poetry shortlist contains ‘a strong strain of elegy’
The authors include Gboyega Odubanjo, whose debut collection was published posthumously, Carl Phillips and Karen McCarthy Woolf
Poem of the week: Four boys, maybe five … by Tal Nitzán
A scene of violence involving a child is shown from two opposing sides. You must respond because from both angles the child is yours