Culture: Poetry

Poetic injustice

Observations on poetry's poisonous side

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The Quickening Maze

Lemn Sissay, poet and playwright

artists on politics

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

Mahmoud Darwish's death highlights the fragmentation of Palestinian society

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Being nasty to Naipaul

Observations on a literary feud

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