The best recent poetry – review roundup

Fierce Elegy by Peter Gizzi; Adam by Gboyega Odubanjo; Bark, Archive, Splinter by Jay Gao; Polkadot Wounds by Anthony Vahni Capildeo; Goodlord by Ella Frears; Skeletons by Deborah Landau

Ismail Kadare obituary

One of Albania’s greatest writers who explored the ugliness and dignity of this ancient and long-oppressed nation

Gerald Dawe obituary

Belfast-born poet, academic and essayist whose work explored the everyday with wit and straightforward syntax

Miriam Scott obituary

Other lives: Feminist poet and editor best known for the anthology Bread and Roses: Women’s Poetry of the 19th and 20th Centuries

John Burnside obituary

Poet, winner of the TS Eliot and Forward prizes and the Whitbread poetry award, memoirist, novelist and academic