‘Great range and power’: TS Eliot poetry prize shortlist announced
Ten poets, including Tom Paulin and Sarah Howe, appear on the shortlist for the £25,000 award, which judges described as offering ‘something for everyone’
Poem of the week: To a Lady that Desired I Would Love Her by Thomas Carew
The 17th-century ‘server at table’ to Charles I puts a wry spin on courtly wooing
‘My poems are part of my flesh’: Palestinian poet Batool Abu Akleen on life in Gaza
At just 20, the poet is one of the most vivid witnesses to the conflict. She talks about dreams of Oxford, the deaths of friends and how tragedy has shaped the person she has become
The best recent poetry – review roundup
So Far So Good by Ursula K Le Guin; Thrums by Thomas A Clark; Sculling by Sophie Dumont; Magadh by Shrikant Verma
Brian Patten obituary
One of the Liverpool poets, along with Roger McGough and Adrian Henri, who was a perceptive writer on love
Liverpool poet Brian Patten dies at 79
His poetry often explored love and relationships and he wrote books for children including Gargling With Jelly
Tony Harrison’s poem V to be performed in the Leeds cemetery that inspired it
The site-specific performance of the once controversial poem was planned for its 40th anniversary in October, but will now double as a tribute to the writer who died last week
Prime Minister’s Literary awards 2025: Michelle de Kretser wins $80,000 for Theory & Practice
The author used her acceptance speech to call out the Australian government’s response to the war in Gaza, in a ceremony marked by political commentary
Poem of the week: An Explanation of Doily by Gwyneth Lewis
A strange, humorous, mysterious window out of trauma is both desolate and decorative
Tony Harrison obituary
Outspoken poet and dramatist admired for his stage adaptations, including The Mysteries
Classics with added Yorkshire class: tributes to Tony Harrison
Harrison’s poetry and plays made an electrifying connection with readers and audiences through his use of Leeds dialect, and his ear for rhyme. Writers remember his greatness
‘The man who came to read the metre’: Yorkshire poet Tony Harrison was the National Theatre bard
Harrison, who has died aged 88, wrote copiously for the stage, both as an ingenious translator and dazzlingly original dramatist
Tony Harrison, poet and dramatist, dies aged 88
Known for his outspoken politics, the author was acclaimed for work in theatre, opera, film and TV but wanted to be thought of as a poet above all
Do you speak Sylheti? Tamajaght? Klingon? Inside the Festival for Endangered Languages
Every two weeks, a language is lost – and by the end of the century, half of the world’s 7,000 tongues could have vanished. We meet the artist using eyeliner and chokeberries to rescue everything from Ogham to Arablish
Poem of the week: Red Carpet by Steve Malmude
An elusive love poem, skittish and serious, seems to be about the poet’s mother and who might count as her ‘first love’