A poem by Grace Yee: ‘A well-known male poet sniggered at the title. I took this as a sign to keep it’

Each week during Australian Poetry Month, a poet walks us through one of their works. Here, Yee, an award-winning poet, shares the dream that inspired this ‘whimsical’ poem

‘I’m carrying survivor’s guilt’: Raymond Antrobus on growing up deaf

The poet reflects on his heritage, his new life as a father in Margate – and why his memoir is a call to arms

Samuel Taylor Coleridge wanted to ‘bid farewell’ to writing at 22, letter reveals

Young poet details low mood and disappointment in love in 1795 letter, written not long before he met Wordsworth

John Hall obituary

Other lives: English lecturer and poet who created one of the first degree courses in performance writing at Dartington College in Devon

Poem of the week: Sea-Fever by John Masefield

A single missing word in the 1902 poem sparks a deeper look at rhythm, dialect and longing

A poem by David Brooks: ‘Counting sheep is difficult for me – I try to give each one a face and personality’

Each week during Australian Poetry Month, a poet walks us through one of their works. Here, David Brooks reflects on insomnia and the exhaustion that comes with animal advocacy

What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in July

Writers and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments

Poem of the week: A Hundred Doors by Michael Longley

An atheist’s complaint at the scant room made by the church for his personal commemoration of the dead

‘How can I find meaning from the ruins of my life?’: the little magazine with a life-changing impact

After struggles with mental health and addiction, Max Wallis launched a poetry magazine – and it has transformed his life

The Empire of Forgetting by John Burnside review – last words from an essential poet of our age

This posthumously published final collection confronts mortality, alongside the world’s almost unbearable beauty

Poem of the week: Salt, Snow, Earth by Naomi Foyle

The relentless cycle of human violence plays out as a brutal symbolic game

Poem of the week: Poem in which I’m a transnational drug smuggler by Bethany Handley

A sharp and witty look at the treatment of people with disabilities conveys its anger with arresting artistry

Poem of the week: Honey Hunters by Rachel Bower

Humanity’s ancient relationship with bees is tracked from our earliest times through a history of ‘woman’s work’ to our collective peril today

Michael Morpurgo to recite Vivaldi-inspired poetry at inaugural Cornwall festival

Author wants to take arts to ‘middle of wonderful nowhere’ in far south-west, often missed by people heading for coast

Writing Australia: can the new national literature body make a real difference for authors?

Supporting writers is nation-building work, and expectations are high for the new body with its re-inaugurated poet laureate