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Poetic injustice

Poetic injustice

By Salil Tripathi - 28 May

Observations on poetry's poisonous side

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The Quickening Maze

The Quickening Maze

Adam Foulds
Reviewed by Fatema Ahmed
Lemn Sissay, poet and playwright

Lemn Sissay, poet and playwright

artists on politics

Mad about the boy

Mad about the boy

By Simon Akam

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

Democracy not fundamentalism

By Peter Black

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

By Michael Glover

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

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Doubled edged chalice...

By Harry Williams

Sliced from the curriculum

By Graeme Allister
A poet for the people

A poet for the people

By Jonathan Cook

Mahmoud Darwish's death highlights the fragmentation of Palestinian society

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Being nasty to Naipaul

By Daniel Trilling

Observations on a literary feud

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