Poem of the week: Red Carpet by Steve Malmude
An elusive love poem, skittish and serious, seems to be about the poet’s mother and who might count as her ‘first love’
Carol Ann Duffy writes ‘bombsite’ poem about Trump’s UK state visit
Exclusive: Former poet laureate has reader contrasting pomp and ceremony of banquet with ruins left by war
I toured UK council estates and learned this: all our lives are poems just waiting to be written
I knocked on doors, spoke to people about hopes and concerns, and wrote poetry to share with them. It could and should be an art form for everyone, says poet Rowan McCabe
91-year-old author Maureen Duffy wins Pioneer prize launched by Bernardine Evaristo
The RSL president has set up a new literary award for female writers over 60 using the £100,000 she herself won through the Women’s prize
Poem of the week: The Butcher of Eden by Pádraig Ó Tuama
What counts as grace is intriguingly rethought in a sly retelling of humankind’s biblical Fall
‘I was writing at my lowest ebb’: Scottish author Len Pennie on domestic abuse and the power of poetry
Len Pennie won praise and faced criticism for exploring domestic abuse in her award-winning debut. She talks about partying sober, writing in Scots, and why she’s rooting out stigma in her follow-up collection
Brian Lewis obituary
Other lives: Founder of a community publishing and arts body that aimed to give ordinary Yorkshire folk a voice
Poem of the week: Scallop Shell by Grace Schulman
An emblem of medieval pilgrimage gains fresh resonance in a more recent time of plague
Deaf Republic review – a town under military occupation falls defiantly silent
Ukrainian-born Ilya Kaminsky’s book-length poem is a potent theatrical force of many moving parts – signing, speech, surtitles, even a drone hovering over the audience
The best recent poetry – review roundup
48Kg by Batool Abu Akleen; Paper Crown by Heather Christle; New Cemetery by Simon Armitage; Red Carpet by Steve Malmude, edited by Miles Champion
Poem of the week: Solitude by Peter McDonald
A wounded bird becomes an image for much wider damage to our world
What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in August
Writers and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments
Poem of the week: New Republic by Michal Rubin
The words of a Palestinian poet, killed in Gaza in 2023, are rekindled by an Israeli writer living in the US, in a dream where their words reach together for another future
A poem by Madison Godfrey: ‘I first encountered poetic language through post-hardcore and punk music’
Each week during Australian Poetry Month, a poet walks us through one of their works. Here, Godfrey reflects on rage, gender and building intensity through flickering imagery
Golden Time (and Other Behavioural Management Strategies) review – a magic hour
Kate Ireland’s warmly delivered one-woman show considers the pressures of productivity, rules and rewards at school and beyond