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
The best recent poetry – review roundup
indiom by Daljit Nagra; The Lights by Ben Lerner; Isdal by Susannah Dickey; The Ferguson Report by Nicole Sealy; Let the Light Pour In by Lemn Sissay; For the Unnamed by Fred D’Aguiar
Gboyega Odubanjo: police appeal for help over missing poet
Award-winning poet last seen in early hours of Saturday morning in Kelmarsh, Northamptonshire
Bright Fear by Mary Jean Chan review – pain and acceptance
The Hong Kong-born queer poet explores their parents coming to terms with their sexuality in tender, incisive pieces
Poem of the week: To a Sparrow by Francis Ledwidge
This brightly observed study of a ‘sweetly impudent’ bird carries with it a distinct political edge
Grieving Wordsworth found solace in poignant shipwreck treasure after brother’s death
When the Romantic poet’s younger brother John died at sea, marine artefacts helped him bear the loss, research reveals
The week in audio: Under Cover of Knight; The Missing Madonna; The Trial of Lucy Letby; Four Sides of Seamus Heaney – review
A woman’s death in Texas is unexpectedly mundane and the nurse’s court case a little too lurid. But there’s lots to love in the true story of a stolen Leonardo and a portrait of the Irish poet
What to read this autumn: 2023’s biggest new books
Sara Pascoe’s new novel, rare Terry Pratchett, memoirs from Barbra Streisand and Britney Spears, plus the essential reading on today’s hot button topics – all the releases to look out for
Pearl by Siân Hughes review – a circling story of memory and loss
Taking a Middle English classic as its inspiration, this is a novel about a lasting grief that echoes through time
Poem of the week: The Clever Cat by Mary Hannay Foott
A children’s poem from 1890 is the cheerful opposite of a homily about the virtues of working hard
The Guinness heir who became the ‘saviour’ of traditional Irish songs
Arts patron Garech Browne is the subject of a new book that hails him as a cultural rescuer who helped preserve Ireland’s folk tunes and poems