Poet laureate
The Guardian view on the rise of eco-poetry: writing cannot ignore global heating | Editorial
Editorial: Verse’s connection to nature can inspire awareness and hope amid the climate crisis, offering clarity beyond data
Editorial
10, Nov, 2024 @6:25 PM
Australia will get a poet laureate next year. Here’s what needs to change first | Sarah Holland-Batt
A laureateship will force government, academic and literary institutions to confront their wilful neglect of poetry – and ask poets to begin to look outward, too
Sarah Holland-Batt
21, Sep, 2024 @12:00 AM
Simon Armitage: Poets can fight climate crisis by making us spellbound by nature
Writer tells Hay festival about his new book, Blossomise, and his hopes to inspire people to preserve the natural world
Rachel Hall
02, Jun, 2024 @4:48 PM
Poem of the week: CLM by John Masefield
The poet’s abiding grief for a mother he lost aged six arrives at large-hearted thoughts about women in general
Carol Rumens
18, Dec, 2023 @12:22 PM
RSC to put on work by poet who wrote Stratford theatre’s first words
John Masefield wrote poem for 1932 opening of Shakespeare Memorial theatre, which is now staging The Box of Delights
Dalya Alberge
24, Oct, 2023 @1:16 PM
John Betjeman dismissed as ‘songster of tennis lawns’ in 1967 search for poet laureate
Records from the National Archive reveal the cut-throat world of British poetry, and the politics behind selecting candidates
Caroline Davies
18, Jul, 2023 @11:01 PM
‘I’m CBE, I’m poet laureate so I’m clearly not a republican am I?’: Simon Armitage
When Simon Armitage left his job as a probation worker to become a full-time poet his dad was horrified. Is the former young subversive turned royal appointee now part of the establishment?
Simon Hattenstone
08, Apr, 2023 @10:00 AM
Poet laureate honours Queen Elizabeth II with new work, Floral Tribute
Simon Armitage’s poem, which spells out the late monarch’s name acrostically, pays homage to ‘a promise made and kept for life’
Lucy Knight
12, Sep, 2022 @11:01 PM
Floral Tribute, a poem for the Queen by Simon Armitage
The poet laureate pays tribute to Queen Elizabeth II
Simon Armitage
12, Sep, 2022 @11:01 PM
Five men and one woman who took on impossible job – of poet laureate
Several of the poets appointed by, or inherited by the Queen, had to deal with public mockery. No wonder Philip Larkin turned down the role
Adam Newey
10, Sep, 2022 @10:00 AM
Unpublished Ted Hughes poems about partner Assia Wevill to be sold
The recently found notebook of fragments and finished work has been described as the poet’s ‘most direct’ response to the suicide of his partner and daughter in 1969
Lucy Knight
08, Jul, 2022 @1:45 PM
Poet laureate Simon Armitage writes Ukraine war poem Resistance
Armitage calls his piece a ‘refracted version of what is coming at us in obscene images through the news’
Harriet Sherwood Arts and culture correspondent
11, Mar, 2022 @10:21 AM
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