You Burn Me review – Sappho and suffering in a macabre meditation on desire and death

This hour-long reverie from Argentinian film-maker Matías Piñeiro offers chilling insight into the agonies of unrequited love

Simon Armitage: Poets can fight climate crisis by making us spellbound by nature

Writer tells Hay festival about his new book, Blossomise, and his hopes to inspire people to preserve the natural world

‘How could my mother leave her baby and then kill herself?’: author Maria Grazia Calandrone’s quest for answers

At eight months old she was left on a blanket in the Villa Borghese, Rome. More than 50 years later, prize-winning poet Maria Grazia Calandrone set out to discover the truth behind her abandonment

John Burnside, author of Black Cat Bone, dies aged 69

The Scottish writer, whose career spanned more than 35 years, was one of only four people to have won both of the UK’s most prestigious poetry prizes for the same book

The best recent poetry – review roundup

Them! by Harry Josephine Giles; Still City by Oksana Maksymchuk; Conflicted Copy by Sam Riviere; The Collected Poems by Roger McGough; Sleepers Awake by Oli Hazzard

Poem of the Week: Rejection by Rudyard Kipling

A 21st-century reader might find a parable in this disturbing Kipling poem, in which a drowned man is dehumanised and has become a displaced ‘thing’

Poet Ali Cobby Eckermann wins book of the year at the NSW premier’s literary awards

Her first novel in eight years, She is the Earth, also claims the Indigenous writers category, netting writer a combined $40,000

Poem of the week: An Epitaph on the Death of Nicholas Grimald by Barnabe Googe

A formal tribute to the death of a fellow poet cannot, in the end, restrain its passion

Matthew Rhys on Dylan Thomas: ‘He was the rock star poet’

The actor is playing the writer in a dramatic reading of a one-act play that carries a special meaning for those involved

Irish poetry publisher toasts new home in pub after crowdfunding campaign

Bookshop and arts centre run by Salmon Poetry is saved from closure after raising more than €60,000 from 700 individuals

Poem of the week: Rocket in the Room by Oksana Maksymchuk

A child’s eye attempts to make sense of a military attack on a school – but fails to find any

‘Despite appearances, I finally realise I am not able-bodied’: novelist Daisy Lafarge on her hypermobility disorder

The writer was 31 when she was diagnosed with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, an incurable genetic condition. She recalls the relief – and grief – of chronic health issues finally being given a name

On my radar: Daniel Handler, AKA Lemony Snicket, on his cultural highlights

The US children’s author and novelist on a sublime musical trio, how spices reinvigorated his cooking, an addictive ‘mid-19th century’ BBC panel show and being floored by a new jazz track

Near-Life Experience by Rowland Bagnall review – the time traveller’s life

The British poet’s second collection is an exacting examination of the past, the present and an uncertain future

Poem of the week: The Night Hunt by Thomas MacDonagh

Alert to the energies of small words and large dogs, this bounding tale by the republican revolutionary is free from ‘Irish shams’