The best recent poetry – review roundup
The Slain Birds by Michael Longley; The Hurting Kind by Ada Limón; Faust by Sandeep Parmar; Radical Normalisation by Celia Sorhaindo
Works by Mexican writer Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz recovered from auction
Two books containing 17th-century works by pioneering feminist poet and nun saved from US auction and returned to Spain
The Arctic by Don Paterson review – poetry from the last-chance saloon
Paterson tackles everything from nuclear apocalypse to the male appendage in this confident, blackly humorous collection
Poem of the week: Villanelle of His Lady’s Treasures by Ernest Dowson
A fin-de-siècle poet’s attempt to retain the beauty of a lost love is built around unsettlingly violent imagery
Lemn Sissay: ‘I’m not angry any more, but it’s a daily battle not to be’
The poet and broadcaster, 55, on the power of forgiveness, growing up in care, loving poetry from the age of 12 and getting his OBE
Children’s and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels
Bad manners in the jungle; a magical inner-city tree; galactic danger; a conservationist call to arms; plus the best new YA novels
First fiction work by Nobel prize-winning poet Louise Glück to be published in UK
The 64-page ‘prose narrative’ Marigold and Rose: A Fiction – about twins in the first year of life – will be published in October
Winters in the World by Eleanor Parker review – a dive into the Anglo-Saxon year
An magical exploration of the weather literature left behind by the poets, scientists and historians of Anglo-Saxon Britain
Ana Luísa Amaral obituary
Portuguese poet of the everyday and translator of works by Emily Dickinson and Shakespeare’s sonnets
Poem of the week: In Winter the Steep Lane by Peter Sansom
A spare, haunting depiction of a tricky winter walk points the way to everyone’s final destination
Mohamed Ibrahim Warsame, one of Somalia’s greatest poets, dies aged 79
Somali social media has been flooded with tributes to the man better known as ‘Hadraawi’
On my radar: Kayo Chingonyi’s cultural highlights
The award-winning poet on his favourite New York record store, the mindfulness of taking photos on film cameras, Ann Patchett’s captivating essays and the lyrical appeal of Medellín
Poem of the week: Sonnet on Reading Burns’ To a Mountain Daisy by Helen Maria Williams
A fierce defence of his battles with ‘adverse fortune’ suggests Robert Burns was invigorated by the confrontation
The best recent poetry – review roundup
It Must be a Misunderstanding by Coral Bracho; Imperium by Jay Gao; The Illustrated Woman by Helen Mort; The Arctic by Don Paterson; 12 Pamphlets by Selima Hill
Poet Nikita Gill: ‘I worry about people getting tattoos of my work. What if I made a typo?’
Her touching verses about heartbreak, fat-shaming and body hair have made her Britain’s most-followed poet on social media – and now she’s heading for TV