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In Daisy & Woolf, Michelle Cahill revisits a modernist classic to write a story of her own

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 Conversation

The love song of TS Eliot: intense letters reveal the passion behind the pen

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

The Guardian - UK

Zombie workers and sexual hang-ups: how Edvard Munch foresaw our lonely lives – review

From the grief of loss to the despair of impotence and the misery of work, the Scandinavian master wallows gloriously in pain, filling the soul with the ecstatic sorrow of his colours

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Can we defeat democracy's enemies?

Confronting Putin isn't about sanctions or military strategy. It's about facing what we did to make him possible

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‘Grandfather of Goth’: fans campaign for US stamp honoring Edward Gorey

Gorey’s ‘sinister whimsy’ has influenced other oddball creatives including Lemony Snicket and Tim Burton

The Guardian - US

Critical Revolutionaries by Terry Eagleton review – five critics who changed the way we read

How modern literary criticism came to be – with a little help from TS Eliot, FR Leavis, Raymond Williams and others

The Guardian - UK

TS Eliot’s The Waste Land issues weather warning for our times

A century on, modernist poem’s visions of a desiccated landscape still resonate today

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Don’t forget the centenary of AE Housman’s Last Poems

Letters: TS Eliot’s The Waste Land has been getting a lot of media coverage, but there is another poet whose work is still relevant, writes Max Hunt

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Still living and partly living with TS Eliot

Brief letters: Poetic licence | Crossed wires | Clueless about Covid | Muting The Archers | Brexit walkabout

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on TS Eliot’s modernism: between high and low culture

Editorial: What the poet found in the most popular music hall artiste of his time shines a light on a misunderstood genius and the time he lived in

The Guardian - UK

From Pet Shop Boy to nostalgic folkie: Neil Tennant plays guitar

The synthpop maestro used lockdown to revisit folk songs he’d written in the 1970s, inspired by whichever chord he’d learned that day

The Guardian - UK

Ed Sheeran has a plan to tackle claims of plagiarism

Fresh from his legal success, the singer now films his creative process in the studio

The Guardian - UK

Get real: Real Madrid aren’t really Spanish

Letters: Denationalised football clubs | Toilet seats: up or down? | The damage hard work does to bodies | TS Eliot anagram

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Fragments festival: Your guide to this weekend’s celebration of TS Eliot’s The Waste Land

The ambitious festival, marking 100 years of the epic poem, takes in everything from live readings to sea shanties

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From Dreamland to The Waste Land

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12 destinations marking the arrival of modernist Britain

In the centennial year of modernism, we visit visionary places where artists, engineers and architects imagined the future

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‘It takes your hand off the panic button’: TS Eliot’s The Waste Land 100 years on

TS Eliot’s modernist masterpiece has baffled and moved readers for a century. Now the poem has inspired a whole festival. Fans including Jeanette Winterson pin down its elusive, allusive power

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Country diary: An unassuming chapel, full of death and life

Ayshford, Devon: It sits alone, tucked between canal and motorway, with centuries-old carvings that remind us of our mortality

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April will be cruel to UK households, but the economy's problems are much longer term

The poet TS Eliot famously proclaimed April to be the “cruellest month”. Writing after surviving a pandemic – the Spanish flu of 1918 – he was referring to the familiar (often misguided) sense of hope that traditionally accompanies the arrival of spring.

The Guardian - AU

TS Eliot’s wife Vivienne died in an asylum. Steven Carroll decided to free her

Over four novels, the award-winning Australian author has picked apart Eliot and his relationships with women – but felt moved to give the poet’s first wife a happier end

The Guardian - UK

Madeline Miller: ‘Reading Ayn Rand was like being dipped in slime’

The author of The Song of Achilles on discovering TS Eliot, her childhood love of James Herriot and the subversive genius of Chinua Achebe

The Guardian - UK

C+nto & Othered Poems by Joelle Taylor review – punchy tales of lesbian life

The winner of the TS Eliot prize offers a rallying cry for gay unity amid prejudice and death

The Guardian - UK

‘They are literally murdering us’: poet Joelle Taylor on bringing the LGBTQ+ community together

She’s been marginalised and slapped in the street – but Taylor’s passionate and nostalgic poems about butch lesbian subculture just won the TS Eliot prize. Can they also heal the divisions over gender identity?

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