Peter Jones obituary
Other lives: English teacher who played key roles in the founding of Carcanet Press and the magazine PN Review
Strange Beach by Oluwaseun Olayiwola audiobook review – a debut that dances with passion
The dancer and author gives this collection clarity and warmth as he narrates poems about family, queer identity, hedonism and race
The best recent poetry – review roundup
Gravity Archives by Andrew Motion; Rabbitbox by Wayne Holloway-Smith; Strange Architectures by JL Williams; I Do Know Some Things by Richard Siken
‘I owe Iron Maiden my English A-level!’ The great literature our writers discovered through pop music
Ahead of World Book Day on Thursday, Guardian music writers pick out the musicians whose literary references illuminated them – from Adam Ant on Joe Orton to the National on Grace Paley
Arts Council England faces legal threat over magazine’s withdrawal of poet’s work
Publicly funded journal pulled poem citing writer’s ‘social media presence’, with solicitors alleging discrimination over gender-critical views
Send us your questions for Michael Rosen
As he turns 80 this year, we’re inviting fans of the author to ask him the questions they’ve always wanted to ask
Mags Webster obituary
Other lives: Award-winning poet and arts administrator working with First Nations artists in Western Australia
Evening All Afternoon review – Erin Kellyman makes blazing stage debut as spiky stepdaughter
The 28 Years Later star joins the impressive Anastasia Hille in Anna Ziegler’s two-hander about grief and family
Evelyn Araluen wins $125,000 for ‘politically uncompromising’ poetry at Victorian premier’s literary awards
Poet’s second collection The Rot won the Victorian prize for literature and the Indigenous writing category
Georgi Gospodinov: ‘Jorge Luis Borges gave me an exhilarating sense of freedom’
The Bulgarian Booker winner on the letter he wrote to JD Salinger, the allure of Homer’s Odyssey and the magic of Thomas Mann
Poem of the week: To Wordsworth by Percy Bysshe Shelley
The radical young poet’s backhanded tribute to the older writer is a stern judgment on his lapsed political idealism
The best recent poetry – review roundup
Afterburn by Blake Morrison; Into the Hush by Arthur Sze; Unsafe by Karen McCarthy Woolf; Only Sing by John Berryman; Lamping Wild Rabbits by Simon Maddrell; Dream Latitudes by Alia Kobuszko
‘Pain is a violent lover’: Daisy Lafarge on the paintings she made when floored with agony
Suffering from a connective tissue disorder and enduring endless calls to try and get benefits, the poet and novelist turned to painting – resulting in work that could change perceptions of disabled people
Poem of the week: The Secret Day by Stella Benson
Writing towards the end of the first world war, the poet, novelist, journalist and suffragist Benson here dreams of a secure peace
‘Unjust and inhuman’: how royal family ignored a Black abolitionist’s plea to end the slave trade
In this adapted extract from The Crown’s Silence, which examines the royal family’s links with slavery from Elizabeth I to the present, Ottobah Cugoano directly appeals to the monarchy – but is met with silence