Poetry
Else Lasker-Schüler, the poet who defied the Nazis
The Jewish German writer antagonised Hitler’s regime with every action she took. To me, she was also family
Poetry
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Nic Aubury’s 4-line poem: Poles Apart
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Nic Aubury’s 4-line poem: Exception/Rule
Poetry
Nic Aubury: Repeat to Fade
Poetry
Nic Aubury 4-line poem: Dear Americans
Poetry
Nic Aubury’s 4-line poem: On death and holidays
Poetry
Nic Aubury’s 4-line poem: Trope Blind
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Nic Aubury’s 4-line poem: Retirony
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Nic Aubury’s 4-line poem: Daily cake
Poetry
Autumn, the season for poets
We are once again entering a time of introspection and reminiscence as the long summer days give way to mists and mellow fruitfulness
Poetry
Nic Aubury’s 4-line poem: All You Need Is…
Poetry
Nic Aubury’s 4-line poem: Forties
Poetry
Nic Aubury’s 4-line poem: On Hold
Poetry
Mitch Benn’s poem of the week: Looking forward in anger
Poetry
Nic Aubury’s 4-line poem: What the goat singers knew
Poetry
What's wrong with JD Vance?
Poetry
Nic Aubury’s 4-line poem: Lee wants his country back
Poetry
The poet who sang about the dark times
Brecht lived through some of Europe’s darkest times yet still produced some of the 20th century’s boldest, most influential and epoch-defining theatre
Poetry
Nic Aubury’s 4-line poem: The Spoils
Poetry
'I want my country back'
Poetry
Nic Aubury’s 4-line poem: Trickle down
Poetry
It's Tory leadership contest time
Poetry
Nic Aubury’s 4-line poem: Cui Bono
Poetry
The US right wing nutjobs
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Nic Aubury’s 4-line poem: Just so
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Nigel, fly to Florida
Poetry
Nic Aubury’s 4-line poem: The Fan
Poetry
Spare a thought for the satirists
Poetry
Kathleen Jamie’s ‘Cairn’ is poetry in prose
The Scottish writer infuses quiet moments with beauty and profundity. Her new book is so good it’s almost impossible to let it go
Poetry
Beautiful spark of divinity
Beethoven’s fascination with the Enlightenment eventually led him to adapt Schiller’s poem An die Freude (Ode to Joy) into his Ninth Symphony
Poetry
Seamus Heaney’s songs of the earth
How a Danish archaeologist’s book about ancient bodies found buried in peat bogs inspired some of the poet’s greatest work
Poetry
The truth, erudition and beauty of Benjamin Zephaniah
The late poet was a natural anarchist and a one-off whose like we will not see again