The Hopeful Hat by Carole Satyamurti review – somewhere towards the end
In this posthumous collection, the poet explores losing the power of speech and her final days with grace and wit
Poem of the week: Letter to a Land Owner by Sean Borodale
A poem in response to the ban on wild camping in Dartmoor – a quiet, tender appeal against the belief that ‘powerful landscapes are only for the wealthy’
‘Sensual’, ‘revelatory’, ‘delicious’: the best Australian books out in March
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
Poem of the week: Small Change by Carole Satyamurti
A stark account of encountering homeless people in London offers no easy consolation to anyone
The best recent poetry – review roundup
Balladz by Sharon Olds; Material Properties by Jacob Polley; Was It for This by Hannah Sullivan; Brother Poem by Will Harris; Couplets by Maggie Millner
The best theatre to stream this month: The Boys Are Kissing, Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends and more
Our roundup of drama to watch at home includes Hans Christian Andersen on skates, a verbatim play five years in the making and poems from Ukraine
Poem of the week: Grains by Esther Kondo
The simple act of planting seed corn is followed through to a rich legacy
Les Barker obituary
Other lives: Comic poet much admired on the international folk scene for his humorous and often poignant lyrics
Poem of the week: Four Seasons Gone by Patricia McCarthy
A tribute to the spirit and resilience of Ukrainians who have kept hope, and poetry, alive since the Russian invasion
Em Strang: ‘Right now we’re living through a time of incredible misogyny’
The award-winning poet on writing in the voice of a convicted killer, her excavation of the masculine psyche and why she wants to read less
The Drifted Stream audiobook review – Andrew Motion celebrates poetry’s rich oral tradition
David Rintoul and Shaheen Khan are among the actors who read from Motion’s anthology of British and Irish poetry, spanning from the 14th century to the present day
Poets’ dress code: what the clothes of Sylvia Plath, Audre Lorde and Stevie Smith tell us about their inner lives
A new exhibition, dovetailing with the 60th anniversary of Plath’s death, showcases a skirt she wore to Paris in 1956, Smith’s collection of pristine shirt collars, and the symbolic asymmetric kaftan worn by Lorde after her mastectomy
Forensic study finds Chilean poet Pablo Neruda was poisoned
The toxin clostridium botulinum was in his body when he died in 1973, days after Chile’s military coup
Poem of the week: Second Sleep by Hannah Stone
In this evocative prose poem, grief is transmitted through an early-hours nightmare
Anne Harvey obituary
Other lives: Writer and teacher who produced literary anthologies for various publishers