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Nevaeh Rawsthorne, Year 10-11
The Truth Behind Care Life
Sun 5 Jul 2026
Poppy Sebag-Montefiore
The poet of China’s factory floors
Sat 4 Jul 2026
Michael Rosen
What Benjamin Zephaniah taught me
Thu 2 Jul 2026
Jade Cuttle
Poetry books of the month: the view from the corner table
Sat 27 Jun 2026
Chris Power
Paperback of the week: You Must Live – New Poetry from Palestine
Thu 25 Jun 2026
Rachel Sylvester
Lemn Sissay: ‘My foster parents taught me that if you are loved, you will be destroyed’
Sat 13 Jun 2026
Jade Cuttle
Poetry books of the month: the republic of parenthood
Fri 29 May 2026
Frank Skinner
Who needs push-ups when poetry keeps you young?
Sun 17 May 2026
Jade Cuttle
Poetry books of the month: Melete and Yiewsley
Thu 30 Apr 2026
Vanessa Thorpe
Scottish poet’s dying wish to be denied after clerical error
Sun 29 Mar 2026
Jade Cuttle
Poetry book of the month:Â Gravity Archives by Andrew Motion
Sat 28 Mar 2026
Simon Armitage
Poems for Mother’s Day
Sun 15 Mar 2026
Gwyneth Lewis
If the Welsh language dies it’s not just Wales that will be the poorer for it
Sun 1 Mar 2026
Jade Cuttle
Cherry Blossom at Nightbreak by Rishi Dastidar
Thu 26 Feb 2026
Andrew Motion
John Berryman’s great American songbook
Thu 12 Feb 2026
Jade Cuttle
Poetry book of the month: Unsafe by Karen McCarthy Woolf
Sat 31 Jan 2026
Blake Morrison
Pressed by Blake Morrison
Sun 4 Jan 2026
Jade Cuttle
Confessions of a parish priest
Sat 3 Jan 2026
The Sunday Poem: Green by Josephine Balmer
Sun 28 Dec 2025
Simon Armitage
Tony Harrison, remembered by Simon Armitage
Sun 28 Dec 2025
Ben Okri
Scratching the Sky
Sun 28 Dec 2025
Underhill by Lavinia Greenlaw
Sun 14 Dec 2025
Seán O’Hagan
Tom Paulin’s exile state of mind
Wed 10 Dec 2025
Tom Gatti
Introducing The Observer’s Sunday poem
Sun 7 Dec 2025
Simon Armitage
The Overload by Simon Armitage
Sun 7 Dec 2025
Steve Bloomfield
Algeria’s protest poet will need more than awards to avoid a life in prison
Mon 24 Nov 2025
Jude Rogers
TS Eliot’s 20th-century nightmare
Tue 18 Nov 2025
Jade Cuttle
Digging for the dead
Sun 16 Nov 2025
Olivia Ovenden
A love letter from the afterlife
Sun 9 Nov 2025
Amy Key
Capri: poetry and ocean
Sun 2 Nov 2025
Fintan O’Toole
Seamus Heaney’s poems for a darkening age
Fri 24 Oct 2025
Jade Cuttle
Phillis Wheatley, the first Black nature poet
Thu 23 Oct 2025
James Rebanks
A radical rural manifesto
Sun 19 Oct 2025
Jade Cuttle
Simon Armitage makes peace with the dead
Sun 31 Aug 2025
Jade Cuttle
A post-punk cabaret singer’s funny, fiery poetry collection
Sat 31 May 2025
Olivia Ovenden
In Letters from Max, Sarah Ruhl celebrates friendship – and soup
Thu 22 May 2025
Jade Cuttle
Poetry book of the month: Mind your language
Sun 4 May 2025
