Poem of the week: Poem XVII by WH Auden

This mysterious work from 1930 is very tempting to read as a conflicted love poem by the young gay poet

I don’t feel like I was born into the wrong body. There’s not a right or wrong way to be trans

Madison Godfrey inhabits gender beyond a binary, but transition isn’t what makes them trans

Pete Brown, countercultural poet, singer and Cream lyricist, dies aged 82

British poet who wrote lyrics for Sunshine of Your Love, White Room and many more also had acclaimed solo career

Jill Longmate obituary

Other lives: Writer who chronicled the lives of contemporary lesbians

Poem of the week: Der Kleiber … by Sujata Bhatt

Though set in ambiguous territory, the observations of the tiny bird in these verses are precise and pin-sharp

Anthony Anaxagorou wins Ondaatje prize for collection of postcolonial poetry

The British-Cypriot poet took the £10,000 award with his third book of poems, which judges described as ‘pushing the confines of form and language’

‘Candid’, ‘gripping’, ‘compulsory reading’: the best Australian books out in May

Each month, Guardian Australia editors and critics pick out the upcoming titles they’ve already devoured – or can’t wait to get their hands on

Blood Feather by Patrick McGuinness review – on the wings of grief

The multitalented writer returns to poetry after 13 years with a striking, moving collection sparked by the death of his mother

Poem of the week: The North Wind by Anne Brontë

This free-spirited romantic adventure story is one of Anne Brontë’s ‘Gondal poems’

On my radar: Aaron Dessner’s cultural highlights

The producer and musician from rock band the National on an inspirational Ethiopian pianist, a great Icelandic book on the climate crisis, and the cuisine of the Hudson Valley​

The best recent poetry – review roundup

Tomorrow Someone Will Arrest You by Meena Kandasamy; Divisible By Itself and One by Kae Tempest; To 2040 by Jorie Graham; Local Interest by Emily Hasler; The Ink Cloud Reader by Kit Fan

Pushkin must fall: monuments to Russia’s national poet under threat in Ukraine

Since last February’s invasion more than 30 statues of the 19th-century poet seen as a symbol for tsarist imperialism have been dismantled

The Laureate review – writers throuple up in sinisterly erotic literary thriller

The scandalous love triangle between poet Robert Graves, his feminist wife and a charismatic American writer is the subject of this erotic and entertainingly silly film

Poem of the week: Of Human Knowledge by Sir John Davies

A sharp and lucid case for gaining wisdom through adversity rather than books

In brief: The Short End of the Sonnenallee; Oxblood; Because They Can Play F’cking Good Football – reviews

A pitch-perfect East German novel translated by Jonathan Franzen; a gripping tale of the Manchester underworld; and Erik ten Hag in verse