Poetry
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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
Sean 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
