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Gyles Brandreth: ‘Never look back. You might fall down the stairs’

The writer and broadcaster, 75, on keeping busy, meeting TS Eliot and the Queen, and why his wife thinks he’s ridiculous

The Guardian - UK

Blokecore, The Waste Land and Maggie Smith: the year in fashion

In 2023 there have been highs, lows, brilliance and misfires – and that’s just the clothes. We take a look back at the catwalks, inspiration and snacks that have been in-demand

The Guardian - UK

Ishion Hutchinson: ‘I can hear a poem before it arrives’

The Jamaican poet on his new collection about West Indian soldiers in the first world war, diving into the messiness of language, and the book he rereads every autumn

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Ted Hughes, 25 years on: Now, more than ever, the poet is the voice for our times

The poet laureate, who died a quarter of a century ago today, believed his Shakespeare fixation was almost fatal; his first wife, Sylvia Plath, was certainly the Titania to his Oberon. With his almost psychic connection to nature and a charisma so powerful that even the Queen was rumoured to…

The Independent UK

Louise Glück obituary

Former US poet laureate who could create a landscape in her work that made her seem a visionary

The Guardian - UK

Louise Glück, Nobel prize-winning poet, dies at 80

Pulitzer prize winner and former US poet laureate was known for her sharp, austere lyrical work

The Guardian - US

Louise Glück, Nobel-winning poet of terse and candid lyricism, dies at 80

Nobel laureate Louise Glück has died at 80

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‘He changed my life’: Tom Hiddleston, Rachel Weisz and more on Terence Davies

Terence Davies, who died last Saturday, was a visionary British director, who brought passion and eccentricity to every film. Actors including Jennifer Ehle, Peter Capaldi, Simon Russell Beale and Peter Mullan recall his unique style and sensitivity

The Guardian - UK

Bring No Clothes: Bloomsbury and the Philosophy of Fashion by Charlie Porter review – style revolution

A fashion journalist links the sartorial choices of Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, TS Eliot et al to their avant garde outlook on life

The Guardian - UK

Alas, the friendly Twitter blue bird is no more. It is an ex-logo

Designer Martin Grasser listened to birdsong as he created the cheery, rotund symbol, now unnervingly replaced by an X

The Guardian - UK

'This is the way the world ends': Nevil Shute's On the Beach warned us of nuclear annihilation. It's still a hot-button issue

One of the most haunting poems of the 20th century, T.S. Eliot’s The Hollow Men (1925), concludes:

The Conversation

Richard Ford: ‘I don’t read for comfort. Comfort I source elsewhere’

The Pulitzer prizewinning author on taking life lessons from Chekhov, warming to Woolf and reading Larkin on loop

The Guardian - UK

Where to start with: Iain Banks

He catapulted to fame with depraved, funny novel The Wasp Factory in 1984, but the much-loved Scottish writer had a parallel career as an influential sci-fi writer

The Guardian - UK

A visit to cat heaven

Fat Cat Rescue in Wadsworth provides a safe haven for hundreds of feral cats.

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The Anxiety of Influence: Harold Bloom's (not so) influential idea at 50

Joshua Cohen’s ribald campus novel The Netanyahus (2021), winner of the Pulitzer Prize, is set during the winter of 1959-60. It depicts Ben-Zion Netanyahu, father of the current Israeli Prime Minister, during an itinerant phase of his academic career.

The Guardian - UK

Solmaz Sharif: ‘I don’t shy away from hurting the reader’

The Iranian-American poet on puncturing comfort, staying an apostate and her teenage love of RL Stine

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Looking for something great to read? Here are 5 new books to tempt you

Your choices include novels, poetry and memoir.

The Guardian - UK

Tomás Nevinson by Javier Marías review – the final mystery

The last novel from the late Spanish author is a mesmerising addition to his world of spies and lies

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The best recent poetry – review roundup

Balladz by Sharon Olds; Material Properties by Jacob Polley; Was It for This by Hannah Sullivan; Brother Poem by Will Harris; Couplets by Maggie Millner

The Guardian - UK

Kim Jones brings Eliot’s The Waste Land to Dior’s 2023-24 menswear catwalk

Dior’s industrious designer finds inspiration in century-old modernist poem, as well as the fashion house’s own history

The Independent UK

TS Eliot Prize: Anthony Joseph is announced as this year’s winner

Joseph wins £25,000 for his ‘luminous collection’ Sonnets for Albert

The Guardian - UK

Anthony Joseph wins TS Eliot prize for ‘luminous’ poetry collection

Joseph takes £25,000 prize for Sonnets for Albert, which weighs the impact of growing up with a largely absent father

The National (Scotland)

The Waste Land by Matthew Hollis review - guided walk through loneliness and despair

OF course January is the cruellest month. As an old boss of mine used to say: “The grim reaper is on the downstroke JDQ.” Covid and influenza…

The Guardian - UK

Can you outwit Margaret Atwood? The bumper books quiz of 2022

Which author was this year elected to the US Senate? In what horror story does a vampire appear as a cat? Test your wits with questions set by authors

The Guardian - UK

The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem by Matthew Hollis review – a classic laid bare

TS Eliot’s life and influences are meticulously investigated in this impressive account of artistic creation

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