Winners and judges out of pocket as £20,000 writing awards appear to have closed
The Plaza Prizes offered 10 awards in 2025 but some judges say they were not paid, while a number of winners hit back over AI accusations
Lost Federico García Lorca verse discovered 93 years after it was written
Eight-line poem found on the back of a manuscript sheds light on Spanish poet’s preoccupation with time
The Possibility of Tenderness by Jason Allen-Paisant audiobook review – meditations on nature and belonging
The poet reconnects with the landscape of the May Day Mountains in Jamaica where he grew up in a personal story of migration, race and rural life
Michael Rosen wins Hans Christian Andersen award
The former children’s laureate missed the announcement of the award in Bologna due to post-Brexit passport rule changes
Two for two? Stella prize winner Evelyn Araluen nominated again for second poetry collection
The Rot is nominated for the $60,000 prize for Australian women and non-binary writers, alongside books by Geraldine Brooks and Miranda Darling
The best recent poetry – review roundup
Goyle, Chert, Mire by Jean Sprackland; The House of Broken Things by Kim Moore; The Tree Is Missing by Shannon Kuta Kelly; Dog Star by Michael Symmons Roberts; Horses by Jake Skeets
‘African people are surreal’: songwriter and blues poet Aja Monet on Black resistance and love as spiritual warfare
Radicalised by the inventiveness of groups such as the Harlem Renaissance, the LA-based artist is determined to reclaim the radical possibilities of culture in an age of institutional and algorithmic exploitation
Richard Meier obituary
Other lives: Poet whose work distilled everyday observations with beauty and precision
Country star Ty Herndon: ‘The drugs could be forgiven. Being gay definitely could not’
In an honest new memoir, the musician opens up about being closeted in country, sexual assault and finding love in his 60s
Orwell: 2+2=5 review – documentary portrait doesn’t wholly add up
Raoul Peck’s film about the Nineteen Eighty-Four novelist makes a compelling case for its continuing relevance but could ask more searching questions about its author
Poem about ‘relentlessness of the news cycle’ wins National Poetry Competition
Judges praised the ‘emotional stakes’ of Partridge Boswell’s poem The Gathering, which took the £5,000 top prize
Glenn Storhaug obituary
Other lives: Poet and publisher who founded Five Seasons Press in the late 1970s to share his enthusiasm of the form
‘I want my career, my children and a free supple life’: Sylvia Plath’s radical reinvention
Too often framed as a tragic icon or a victim of domesticity, the poet remade herself and her work at the start of the 60s, as a new collection will show
Ted Booth obituary
Other lives: Lecturer in creative writing for 26 years at Hornsey College of Art in London
University of Liverpool acquires entire archive of poet Roger McGough
Archivist Jo Klett says the 40 boxes of material will provide ‘a full picture of Roger’s entire working career’