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Hollis brilliantly sifts through the tendrils of TS Eliot’s unhappiness and shows how, with help from friends, he broke through his tortured silence to create an era-defining poem

The director talks about his intellectual, political and hilarious body of work, as a retrospective is staged with contributions from his former students Carol Morley and Jarvis Cocker

John Hughes’s novel The Dogs has been withdrawn from the longlist for the Miles Franklin Prize after an investigation by The Guardian identified numerous instances of plagiarism. Hughes’s lifting of passages from other books has sparked furious debate and literary detective work – mostly on Twitter – prompting questions about…

Scholars respond to author’s explanation for his new book appearing to copy some parts of classic texts

Every artist takes. What else do we do but endlessly recycle stories? It’s been going on since the ancient Greek tragedians

Australian author denies he is a plagiarist and says he has been ‘influenced by the greats’ of literature

British director Terence Davies’s ninth feature centres on Siegfried Sassoon, a poet and decorated war veteran who suffered from shell shock and struggled to find 'redemption' from his secret queer romances.

Michelle Cahill’s Daisy Woolf takes its epigraph and its inspiration from Virginia Woolf’s feminist essay A Room of One’s Own (1929): “A woman writing thinks back through her mothers.”

The great poet’s newly released missives to his lost love put the lie to his aloof image – but were dismissed by the man himself as fantasy