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Blanche McIntyre’s production of Aeschylus’s drama has verbal punch and visual eloquence
The programme takes a clear-eyed look at how personal and professional entwined in the poet’s work
A controversial life of the poet raises troubling questions
Jez Butterworth’s play, starring Hugh Jackman, loses some of its impact in its Broadway incarnation
The world of poetry and the wider world has to come to terms with the death of Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney, poet, 1939-2013
Fifty years after her death, Sylvia Plath continues to captivate writers and readers. But her role as a ‘casus belli’ in the battle of the sexes has also obscured the genius of this much-mythologised poet
A look at four people who’ve shared the public eye with their more prominent family members
A life-long closeness between brothers is forged in their shared love of the natural world
The shaping of a nation’s understanding of place through its poets and writers is the theme of this Olympic London exhibition
The solutions to our cultural quiz of the year
This piece from the experimental ensemble Counterpose is intricately curated by Barry Millington and darts between themes of love and death
Poetry after Motion
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