AFL is part of my family’s story – after Dad died and after lockdown, it brought us back together
It took a while for Susie Anderson to come to love Collingwood – but the team, and its colours, now mean everything
Poem of the week: To Toussaint Louverture by William Wordsworth
Published months before Louverture’s death in a French prison, Wordworth’s homage to the leader of the 1791 Haiti revolution is full of Romantic signifiers
In brief: Invisible Lines; The Owl and the Nightingale; They Fell Like Stars from the Sky – reviews
A wide-ranging look at the world’s borders, a witty update on a medieval poem, and subtly political Palestinian short stories
In these troubled times we all get the ‘bothers’ but I have a surefire cure: write them down
The sentence was created to make sense of the world, but some things are beyond logic, says writer Michael Rosen
Her Sunburnt Country by Deborah FitzGerald review – illuminating biography of Dorothea Mackellar
The first authorised biography reveals the Australian poet’s fascinating contradictions, but has less to say on the wilful white amnesia of her work
Tobias Hill obituary
Novelist and poet who was intrigued by what lay beneath the surface of things and whose fiction often had London at its heart
Poem of the week: Barque of Frailty by Rishi Dastidar
A motley swirl of anarchic images casts gloomy light on our condition, but roars along with exhilarating creative energy
‘This family is being devoured’: Lemn Sissay on why Kafka’s Metamorphosis is a tale for our times
The poet has teamed up with Frantic Assembly to bring the novella, about a man who turns into an insect, to the stage. He explains why this story of family meltdown is all about modern life
Olga Ravn: ‘Learning how to love a child isn’t something that happens in a second’
The Danish author on her new hybrid novel about maternal ambivalence, her debt to Doris Lessing, and attempting to read Freud aged 10
Poet Shane McCrae: ‘They kidnapped me to get me away from Blackness’
At the age of three, the author was taken from his father and raised by his racist maternal grandparents, who told him he was white. He reveals how writing gave him the confidence to confront the lies he grew up with
Sarah Holland-Batt wins $25,000 top prize at Queensland literary awards
The poet’s premier’s award for The Jaguar, a collection about the death of her father, follows Stella prize win earlier this year
Consuelo Rivera-Fuentes obituary
Other Lives: Poet and founder of Victorina Press, who left Chile as a survivor of the Pinochet regime
Family of poet Gboyega Odubanjo launch fundraiser to start foundation
More than £36,000 raised to support low-income black writers in memory of award-winning poet who went missing
‘It is nice to be adored, until it isn’t’: Anne Enright on the problem with unrequited love
Young, smart and beautiful, Hilda Moriarty became the muse behind Kavanagh’s famous poem On Raglan Road – and the object of his unwanted affection. Anne Enright explores the poet’s obsessions in an age of unrequited love