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Poetic injustice

Poetic injustice

Observations on poetry's poisonous side

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The Quickening Maze

The Quickening Maze

Adam Foulds
Lemn Sissay, poet and playwright

Lemn Sissay, poet and playwright

artists on politics

Mad about the boy

Mad about the boy

The Great Lover
Jill Dawson
Sceptre, 320pp, £12.99

Democracy not fundamentalism

Welsh Assembly member Peter Black reports on his battle to protect freedom of speech from what he believes is an anti-democratic Christian group

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Sound and vision

In Person: Thirty Poets
Filmed by Pamela Robertson-Pearce Edited by Neil Astley
Bloodaxe Books, 272pp, £12

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Doubled edged chalice...

Sliced from the curriculum

A poet for the people

A poet for the people

Mahmoud Darwish's death highlights the fragmentation of Palestinian society

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Being nasty to Naipaul

Being nasty to Naipaul

Observations on a literary feud

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