Poetry
Kathleen Jamie’s ‘Cairn’ is poetry in prose
The Scottish writer infuses quiet moments with beauty and profundity. Her new book is so good it’s almost impossible to let it go
Poetry
Poetry
Beautiful spark of divinity
Beethoven’s fascination with the Enlightenment eventually led him to adapt Schiller’s poem An die Freude (Ode to Joy) into his Ninth Symphony
Poetry
Seamus Heaney’s songs of the earth
How a Danish archaeologist’s book about ancient bodies found buried in peat bogs inspired some of the poet’s greatest work
Poetry
The truth, erudition and beauty of Benjamin Zephaniah
The late poet was a natural anarchist and a one-off whose like we will not see again
Poetry
Multicultural Man: On the Russian soul
The likes of Osip Mandelstam, Marina Tsvetaeva, Anna Akhmatova and Joseph Brodsky were regarded by their contemporary readers with the awe now reserved for rock stars
Poetry
Paul Éluard, poet of the surreal
He is little-known today, but when he died in 1952, thousands lined the streets of Paris to show respect. What happened to Paul Éluard?
Poetry
Decoding The Waste Land
T. S. Eliot's masterpiece still shocks and disconcerts and bewilders after 100 years
Poetry
When one Door closes: Jim Morrison in his own hand
A new boxed set provides a rare insight into the life and mind of one of the most popular cultural icons of the 20th century during what were to be his final days
Poetry
Taras Shevchenko: The poet who dedicated his life to Ukrainian self-determination
Few nations can boast a cultural figure so enmeshed with the very essence of their national identity as Taras Shevchenko, writes CHARLIE CONNELLY