This year’s TS Eliot prize for poetry has been awarded to Michigan-born Peter Gizzi for Fierce Elegy, a collection that draws on the poet’s experience of losing his brother. Photograph: Penguin Chair... Read more »
The Reader The book sat on the tablefor yearsbefore it opened to a pageexposed to lightfor the first time. In their new surroundingsthe words trembledshaking all meaningfrom their assembly,the reader unable to... Read more »
Invisible Dog by Fabio Morábito, translated by Richard Gwyn (Carcanet, £12.99) Mexican writer Morábito is a real discovery: reading him is like being in the room with someone who trusts you enough... Read more »
Nikki Giovanni, the award-winning US poet who emerged as one of the leading voices of the 1960s Black Arts movement, has died aged 81. Giovanni died on Monday following her third cancer... Read more »
Two poems from At the Dimensional Border In our battle to be rational, we posit,based on three points, a plane, and say it extends— not knowing whether the universe is finiteor infinite... Read more »
A new bronze sculpture of the English Romantic poet John Keats will be unveiled next week, close to his birthplace in Moorgate in the City of London. The sculpture by British artist... Read more »
Forward poetry prize goes to Victoria Chang for collection inspired by painter Agnes Martin | Poetry
All four of the 2024 Forward prizes for poetry have been awarded to women: Victoria Chang won the £10,000 prize for best collection; Marjorie Lotfi’s book was named best first collection; Cindy... Read more »
The Silent Space Given a choice by the gentleman, my third-grader sonelected to have me join him in the soundproofed roomto take his hearing test. Shy-seeming to the audiologisthis mother and I... Read more »
Four boys, maybe five⦠Four boys, maybe five, are shaking a car,their faces distorted by the thrill of destruction.Beneath its wheels lies an abyss.Inside the car is your son.The car tilts.Desolation all... Read more »