Poetry
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Primary school children to be expected to learn and recite poetry
10 Jun 2012: Michael Gove to announce overhaul of English teaching including new emphasis on spelling and grammar
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Editors' picks
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When it comes to women, I give you up, Kingsley Amis wrote to Philip Larkin. Although the poet – bald, peevish and apathetic – had several romantic relationships, most enduringly with the indomitable academic Monica Jones, his private life was ultimately a failure, reflects Martin Amis -
Poverty, talent and early death – Keats's story, with a doomed love affair at its heart, represents an ideal of passion and tragic loss. His biographer Andrew Motion is impressed by Jane Campion's attempt in the film Bright Star to bring the poet's life to the big screen
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Australian-born poet whose moving, elegiac work was seen as among Britain's finest
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With the conflict in Afghanistan escalating and the Iraq inquiry pending, poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy commissions war poetry for today
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Every month, a different poet sets an exercise, chooses the most interesting responses from readers and offers an appraisal of them
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15 Jun 2012: A superb translation has David Wheatley wanting more Mallarmé
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15 Jun 2012: This unsettling mix of poetry and fictional biography is either commendably ambitious or pointlessly elaborate, writes Andrew Motion
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10 Jun 2012:
This is an anthology to rejoice in, full of poems trying to make one feel better about being alive, writes Kate Kellaway
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8 Jun 2012: An open-eyed, rolling arrangement of poems appeals to Carrie Etter
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8 Jun 2012: Emily Stokes admires the power of Anne Carson's take on Antigone
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20 Jun 2012: Deciphered over five years from rescued papers, the poems throw a fascinating light on the reserved author of The Magus, writes Alison Flood -
19 Jun 2012: Victor Keegan: Almost anyone can be an artist in the digital age – yet language and meaning remain as elusive as ever
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18 Jun 2012:
Our hunt for a 10th title for the longlist has produced some great books, but only one poetry collection. Which debuts would you like to see longlisted?
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18 Jun 2012: Carol Rumens: A poem that confronts the moment in a relationship when enough is enough, but leaves the reader in life-like uncertainty
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18 Jun 2012: Roz Kaveney: How to believe: For Donne, God knows us best of all. This closeness, expressed with wry humour, can be hard for a non-believer to comprehend
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15 Jun 2012:
'The poet's extraordinary productivity was achieved in the face of personal tragedy, persistent ill healthy and systematic persecution'
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15 Jun 2012:
The death of Carlos Fuentes sounded the end of the Latin American Boom. But who are the South American writers following in the footsteps of Márquez and Vargas Llosa, and what next for the continent's poets?
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15 Jun 2012: Billy Mills: Packed with wild flowers and love trysts, the poetry of June sees many a writer overcome by the exuberance of nature. For others, it's the perfect opportunity to seek the shade
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15 Jun 2012:
WN Herbert recites his poem, set to the tune of The Blaydon Races, called The Blazing Grater, Or, The Olympic Torch Passes Through Tyneside
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15 Jun 2012:
Or, The Olympic Torch Passes Through Tyneside – the classic geordie anthem, updated by a lighthouse-dwelling poetry professor
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14 Jun 2012:
Faye Lipson: A new anthology inspired by perfume is a reminder of how important smell is to literature
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Quiz,
13 Jun 2012:
Education secretary Michael Gove has announced plans to make learning verse compulsory in primary schools - but how much poetry do you remember from your own school days? See if you can complete these well-known stanzas
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12 Jun 2012: Simon Armitage: If Michael Gove's plan for English means reciting Tennyson in posh accents, it's nothing to celebrate
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12 Jun 2012:
A fire at one of the poet's Lake District home has liberated visitors. There's no sedate progression from room to room at Allan Bank. You and your children can run wild. Alan Cleaver enjoys taking a look.
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11 Jun 2012:
Carol Rumens: A poem with a narrative structure redolent of the short story is a tale of two Roberts, looking back to Burns and forward to Frost
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