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Tuesday May 13, 2008
Poetry
Revolutionary republican
To mark Milton's 400th anniversary, Peter Ackroyd examines his legacy with a new biography, and his poetry
Gillian Ferguson finds the poetry in DNA
An Edinburgh poet has taken the human genome as her muse
A city comes to life
Classic - Sir Thomas Wyatt: Poems selected by Alice Oswald
The world’s worst poet has his day
Poems by the man described as 'so giftedly bad he backed unwittingly into genius' are set to go for auction in Edinburgh
A look back and anger
The Broken Word by Adam Foulds
The Sunday Times review by Peter Kemp: a dazzling verse novella
Poetry round-up
The Sunday Times review by Sean O'Brien
So you are the one, Miss Joan Hunter Dunn
John Betjeman’s muse, who died this month, was long thought to be fictional, until Peter Crookston, of The Sunday Times, found her
A Subaltern’s Love Song
The poem dedicated to Joan Hunter Dunn, who epitomised everything that John Betjeman idealised about young English women
Furnish'd and burnish'd by Aldershot sun...
John Betjeman's unrequited love dies aged 92
Marriage: the ecstasy and agony
Sometimes the hothouse of a partnership fosters frustration and magnifies our tiniest faults
The farmer has his day - twice
His tractor and the noises of the birds and insects are the music he listens to, mixed in the field, his own studio
Peace everlasting
We cannot be caged by the moment of dying; in dying we are, in effect, set free, even if oblivious
Gruffalo artist gives Eliot's cats new life
The characters from TS Eliot’s feline poems are to be given a well-deserved makeover by German-born artist Axel Scheffler
Brown picks odd ode as his favourite poem
Gordon Brown has ignored John Milton to name a chunk of sociology by an obscure American lecturer as his favourite poem
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