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Ted Hughes's jaguar sculpture hints at poet's demons
31 Dec 2011: Poet's family to sell rare jaguar sculpture that they believe shows his pain over Sylvia Plath's death
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Editors' picks
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When it comes to women, I give you up, Kingsley Amis wrote to Philip Larkin. Although the poet – bald, peevish and apathetic – had several romantic relationships, most enduringly with the indomitable academic Monica Jones, his private life was ultimately a failure, reflects Martin Amis -
Poverty, talent and early death – Keats's story, with a doomed love affair at its heart, represents an ideal of passion and tragic loss. His biographer Andrew Motion is impressed by Jane Campion's attempt in the film Bright Star to bring the poet's life to the big screen
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Australian-born poet whose moving, elegiac work was seen as among Britain's finest
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With the conflict in Afghanistan escalating and the Iraq inquiry pending, poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy commissions war poetry for today
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Every month, a different poet sets an exercise, chooses the most interesting responses from readers and offers an appraisal of them
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8 Jan 2012: This fine volume documents the life of an abandoned child who became a bus conductor, Cambridge bluestocking, Uzbek chieftain's wife… and poet, writes Kate Kellaway
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6 Jan 2012: Ben Wilkinson enjoys a poignant collection about everyday lives
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30 Dec 2011: Paul Batchelor on a collection that explodes the cliché of Gaelic poetry
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23 Dec 2011: Sean O'Brien admires a boisterous translation of a bloodthirsty epic
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9 Dec 2011:
Neptune Blue by Simon Barraclough and The Itchy Sea by Mark Waldron
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9 Jan 2012: This time, a very tangible kind of Metaphysical poet -
8 Jan 2012: The multi-talented musician and author sheds light on the studio in Kent where he paints every weekend
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6 Jan 2012: By Tim Cumming
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6 Jan 2012:
A new poem written after the conviction of two men for the teenager's murder in 1993
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6 Jan 2012:
More Dickens and even more Shakespeare, but also new novels from Toni Morrison, Hilary Mantel, Zadie Smith, plus exciting new voices – 2012's literary highlights
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Gallery (5 pictures),
4 Jan 2012:
Catch up with our coverage of the category prizes ahead of the overall award later this month
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3 Jan 2012: Debut work wins children's book award and will go up against Carol Ann Duffy, Matthew Hollis, Andrew Miller and Christie Watson for £30,000 main prize
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3 Jan 2012:
Yorkshire poet and musician Eddie Lawler can't stand idle and watch a once-great institution fade away
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3 Jan 2012:
Carol Rumens: One of many parodies in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, this take on Robert Southey's didactic original has long outlasted its windy inspiration
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1 Jan 2012: Letters: Ian McMillan's welcome reminder of Edward Lear's imminent bicentenary did not mention that Lear 'is perhaps the greatest draughtsman of birds in European culture'
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31 Dec 2011: Poet's family to sell rare jaguar sculpture that they believe shows his pain over Sylvia Plath's death
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30 Dec 2011: By Ruth Padel
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30 Dec 2011: Kieran Yates: In early 2011, poets began setting their words to the sound of dubstep and electronica. Almost twelve months on, the signs are that poetronica is here to stay
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Audio
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30 Dec 2011:
From finance to fiction, we round up the most promising books that are coming up in the new publishing year
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28 Dec 2011:
A dialogue between Mary and the infant Jesus, this anonymous carol is suffused with the blissful bond of mother and child
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