Poem of the week: Scallop Shell by Grace Schulman
An emblem of medieval pilgrimage gains fresh resonance in a more recent time of plague
Deaf Republic review – a town under military occupation falls defiantly silent
Ukrainian-born Ilya Kaminsky’s book-length poem is a potent theatrical force of many moving parts – signing, speech, surtitles, even a drone hovering over the audience
The best recent poetry – review roundup
48Kg by Batool Abu Akleen; Paper Crown by Heather Christle; New Cemetery by Simon Armitage; Red Carpet by Steve Malmude, edited by Miles Champion
Poem of the week: Solitude by Peter McDonald
A wounded bird becomes an image for much wider damage to our world
What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in August
Writers and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments
Poem of the week: New Republic by Michal Rubin
The words of a Palestinian poet, killed in Gaza in 2023, are rekindled by an Israeli writer living in the US, in a dream where their words reach together for another future
A poem by Madison Godfrey: ‘I first encountered poetic language through post-hardcore and punk music’
Each week during Australian Poetry Month, a poet walks us through one of their works. Here, Godfrey reflects on rage, gender and building intensity through flickering imagery
Golden Time (and Other Behavioural Management Strategies) review – a magic hour
Kate Ireland’s warmly delivered one-woman show considers the pressures of productivity, rules and rewards at school and beyond
Poem of the week: Search Engine: Notes from the North Korean-Chinese-Russian Border by Suji Kwock Kim
Kim’s meditation on the disruptions experienced by family members during the Korean war and North Korean dictatorship explores absence, searching and separation
A poem by Justin Heazlewood: ‘This is an ode to hanging out by yourself – and the magic of flavoured milk’
Each week during Australian Poetry Month, a poet walks us through one of their works. Here the writer, comedian and Bedroom Philosopher reflects on his childhood
Lucina Prestige obituary
Other lives: Founder of Renaissance Press, publishing work of leading poets George Bruce and Alan Spence
‘We wondered if it was ethical to adapt it’: can poetry about deaf resistance wow theatre audiences?
Deaf Republic, a collection of war poems written by the Ukrainian American Ilya Kaminsky, have caused a sensation. Now they have been turned into an extraordinary play
Where to start with: John Burnside
Seán Hewitt, who introduces a new edition of the Scottish author’s final memoir, guides readers through his landmark works a year on from his death
Poem of the week: Autumn by Vidyan Ravinthiran
Keats’s famous ode speaks across time and space to a 21st-century Sri Lankan, whose turbulent history catches on its mellow mood
Alexandrian Sphinx by Peter Jeffreys and Gregory Jusdanis review – the mysterious life of Constantine Cavafy
The enigmatic queer poet admired by EM Forster and Jackie Onassis takes centre stage in this unconventional biography