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Maya Angelou to appear on US quarters in historic first

The poet and activist is set to appear of the US currency as part of a program showing how women have shaped American history.

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Breakout US inauguration poet Amanda Gorman releases New Year's poem

The 23-year-old first caught public attention with her impassioned reading of 'The Hill We Climb' at President Joe Biden's inauguration in January. Her latest set of verses touches on the hope and fear many of us have felt in 2021.

Art

'Barbarism' and war poetry: Inside Anselm Kiefer's Paris installations

A new exhibition created by the German painter and sculptor at the Grand Palais Éphémère in Paris, depicts the war poems of Paul Celan, through immersive, giant installations.

Living

How can poetry help us wake up to the climate crisis?

Poetry cannot fix the climate crisis - people can, and the more our empathies and imaginations are stirred the better.

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Italy

Italy's poet Dante Alighieri given symbolic re-trial 700 years on

The author of the Divine Comedy left Florence in 1302 never to return.

Living

‘My poems are not nice,’ Ella Duffy on the sinister side of nature

Award-winning young poet Ella Duffy talks about the brutality of nature and her new work on the UK's rarest flower.

France

French president pens birthday poem to British teen

“I know a man who’ll read your verse… The President of France.”

Russia

Lauded Russian poet Yevtushenko buried in Moscow

Russian Poet Yevtushenko laid to rest in Moscow

Russia

Poet Yevtushenko dies

Tributes are pouring in for the Russian poet who strove to liberate artistic expression from the shackles Soviet politics

United Kingdom

Haggis, neeps and tatties: Burns Night explained

Scots celebrate Robert Burns’ birthday every year on January 25.

Sweden

Bob Dylan is the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate

Musician Bob Dylan wins the Prize "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition."

Cinema

'Microbe and Gasoline', optimism and poetry by Michel Gondry

‘Microbe and Gasoline’ is a typical Michel Gondry movie: optimistic and poetic. Microbe and Gasoline are two teenage boys. Their nicknames bear

Spain

Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca was executed during civil war, papers reveal

Hungary

An unusual movie tribute to Hungarian poetry

Sweden

Sweden mourns death of prize-winning poet Tomas Transtromer

Sweden is mourning the death of one of its most famous literary figures, the Nobel Prize-winning poet Tomas Transtromer. Members of the Nobel academy

Culture news

Kate Tempest: A Cross Genre Talent

http://katetempest.co.uk/about Rapper, poet, playwright – south London’s Kate Tempest is being hailed as one of Britain’s brightest and most

France

1914: the war-time death of French writer Charles Péguy, my great grandfather

USA

American author and poet Maya Angelou dies at age 86