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The Sierra Leonean filmmaker’s new installation at London’s Barbican features videos with choirs performing his poems
The author’s adaptation of Kafka’s ‘Metamorphosis’ tackles darkness while his book of dawn poems looks to the light
Ralph Dutli’s rounded biography of the Soviet-era writer murdered by Stalin deftly examines his literary legacy
From ‘Latch’, the Suffolk poet’s latest collection
Maria Crawford selects her best mid-year reads
The former poet laureate’s second memoir charts a brilliant career underpinned by his ability to network
The writer on mentors, his Tubby Custard obsession and free will
The foundation is celebrating the poet’s work with events in Greece and beyond, including one in New York featuring Laurie Anderson
The poet, playwright and author on the origins of his new book ‘Budgie’, and learning to face his fears
A new translation brings to life the astonishing voice of the Sumerian princess who was a poet, a priestess — and the world’s first named author
A new translation does justice to the joyous treatment of love and desire in the ‘Tirukkural’
Maria Crawford selects her must-read titles
An extract from ‘Peach Pig’, the forthcoming debut collection of the Young People’s Laureate for London
From ‘Outlandish’, the Darlington poet’s first collection
From ‘Came the Lightening’, a collection dedicated to George Harrison on the 20th anniversary of his death
The acclaimed poet writes specially for FTWeekend to mark the jubilee
Jeet Thayil’s selection of poems written in English is a dazzling collection vast in ambition and scope
The Vietnamese-American poet on the legacy of war, navigating grief — and turning invisibility into a superpower
Prescient words from a freed serf — born on this day, March 9, in 1814 — considered the national poet of Ukraine
From ‘Thorpeness’, this work of memory captures the rhythms of the rural English landscapes
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