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Roe’s focus on Keats’s early life challenges many of the things we think we know about the poet, bringing to the fore instead the sudden death of his father when he was very young, his mother’s indecently hasty remarriage, and the family’s social and financial decline.

Raise the Tricolore for France's most important public holiday - 'La Fête Nationale' - when all things Gallic are celebrated with a day off work. Quel dommage that it falls on a Sunday...

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Dutch composer Robert Zuidam believes bad poetry may be a better spur to musical creativity than great verse. And when it comes to the monumentally bad poetry of William McGonagall, Zuidam clearly knows what he’s taking on, brilliantly describing how “a limp sense of meter wanders, seemingly clueless, through an unhinged linguistic landscape”.

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About 20 names are missing from this year’s honours list because the people concerned did not want to be on it.

Best known for his Schubert lieder, tenor Mark Padmore here performs Alec Roth's arrangements of songs and poems for voice and guitar, ranging from a sequence of Thomas Wyatt poems of love lost, to the more reflective, crepuscular tone of modern verses on nocturnal themes by Vikram Seth.

There was a reason Robinson went into poetry. “I'm no good at anything else,” she says. The north-London-born poet writes about sex, love and politics.

Queen Victoria, Buffalo Bill, and a mysterious Chilean heiress

Every mother's son – and daughter – will appreciate this powerful chorus of family memories

The loss of a child frames this novel of grief and survival that draws on both history and science

A south London tourist board is challenging the Lake District's claim to the name. So did it bring out the poet in John Walsh

In the decade since his death, the books of Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño have been arriving in English translation with staggering regularity.