On my radar: Es Devlin’s cultural highlights
The set designer and artist on the most extraordinary opera, a gut-wrenching Sudanese-American poet and a writer’s new angle on economics
Louise Glück obituary
Former US poet laureate who could create a landscape in her work that made her seem a visionary
Louise Glück: a poet who never shied away from silence, pain or fear
Her work included long periods in which she wrote nothing – and when she did write, she had little sense that it was hers
Bohdan Piasecki wins best performed poem in new Forward prize category
Piasecki’s ‘electric’ performance of Almost Certainly wins new award that recognises spoken word artists, while Malika Booker, Jason Allen-Paisant and Momtaza Mehri also scoop up prizes
Poem of the week: Toad by Cliff Forshaw
A slangy English take on a work by poète maudit Tristan Corbière has the writer finding a kindred spirit in the croaky ‘junk-dump nightingale’
Poem of the week: The Diomedes by Matthew Hollis
The distance between two remote islands in the Bering Strait is measured by different meanings of neighbourliness
George the Poet: ‘These Tories will get what’s coming to them. They are not the British people’
The podcaster and yes, poet, on fatherhood, writing for the royal wedding and why spoken word has stormed the mainstream
Poet Safiya Sinclair: ‘As a girl I felt small within Rastafari’
The Jamaican poet on her new memoir chronicling life with an authoritarian father, reconfiguring the postcard image of her homeland and her love of Marvel comic books
‘Washy clouds and a weepy sky floating upside down’: Simon Armitage’s Arctic expedition
The poet laureate faces the climate crisis head-on in Svalbard, and presents a new poem, The Summit
‘Libraries are the heart of community’: children’s laureate Joseph Coelho on inspiring the next generation of writers
Since his first anthology in 2014, Coelho has become a prolific author for children and YA readers – and it all started, he says, in a vital community space
Anthology of poems by van drivers celebrates life on the road
Nikki and Russell Eatly’s poem The Work Wife wins competition in Poetry in Motion collection
The best recent poetry – review roundup
Pitch & Glint by Lutz Seiler; Mothersong by Amy Acre; Infinite in Finite by Andrew Wynn Owen; Enter the Water by Jack Wiltshire; The Coming Thing by Martina Evans
‘They didn’t believe my life’: the poet from the centre of Sweden’s gang wars
Faysa Idle has a book out on the brutal impact of the violence on sisters, partners and mothers
Shortlisted TS Eliot prize poets speak to a disrupted world
The 10 listed collections range from ‘zany intimacy’ by Sharon Olds to explorations of Black identity from Ishion Hutchinson and Jason Allen-Paisant
Poem of the week: Snow-Flakes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
As the elegiac poem develops across its three verses, the powerful imagery becomes a metaphor for the insurmountable grief from the death by fire of the poet’s beloved wife