Poetry
Sunny side up
Christopher Reid’s new collection, Ordinary Morning Sunlight, shows a writer at the height of his powers
Welcome back, our poet of deadlock
After a decade of silence, Tom Paulin returns with a collection full of subtle, quiet, emotional wrangles
Geoffrey Hill
Obituary
Smirk Host Panegyric
The poems of J. H. Prynne
Peter Reading
Obituary
Words of weight
The difficult poetry of J. H. Prynne
None more black
Don Paterson’s Rain
Peter Porter
Obituary
Brushed away
Glyn Maxwell’s Hide Now
A place of casual collisions
The poetry of John Redmond
All this time on my knees
Sarah Maguire spins vast webs of interconnections from close observation
Cardigan arrest
Daljit Nagra’s debut collection
The Matter of England
A review of Simon Armitage
Daddy's growling girl
The poetry of Dorothy Molloy
Slapstick torture
Keston Sutherland’s political poetry
Where have all the poets gone?
A disappointing shortlist at the 2006 T S Eliot Prize
Margin of horror
The poetry of Richard Price
Making a case for ee cummings
Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno’s EE Cummings
The early years of a natural, fouled-up guy
Philip Larkin’s Early Poems and Juvenilia
Concentration, not consolation
The resistable rise of anthologies
Through the oval window
Why J. H. Prynne deserves wider acclaim
Newly dug plots
Tony Lopez’s False Memory
Repeat to fade
Peter Reading’s Collected Poems
Plebeian poet
Jonathan Bate’s John Clare
In their own words
A collection of rare recordings of some great literary figures from the British Library
Faithful only to poetry
Marina Tsvetaeva’s hungry years
Schoolgirl capers
Philip Larkin’s lesbianism
A Passionate Partisan
Ian Hamilton’s posthumous Lives of the Poets
Art of Darkness
The poetry of Robin Robertson
A change of address
Geoffrey Hill’s Speech! Speech!
The view from Olympia
Seamus Heaney’s Electric Light
All Is Poetry
A brilliant reading of a misunderstood poet
Dismembering Kitty
Craig Raine's bathetic elegy, A La Recherche du Temps Perdu
Avid for annotation
William Empson’s Complete Poems
Bathetic fallacies
Tony Harrison’s Laureate's Block
A child of acrimony
Michael Hofmann’s Approximately Nowhere
No visible means of support
Christopher Reid’s delicate constructions
Heart and home
Andrew Motion’s The Price of Everything
While the match burns
Simon Armitage’s Book of Matches
Stand-offs with history
Tom Paulin’s Selected Poems
Cheeking the crowd
Glyn Maxwell’s brilliant second collection
At home with Peter Reading
An early interview
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