West End Final by Hugo Williams/The Hunt in the Forest by John Burnside/A Scattering by Christopher Reid

The Sunday Times review by SeaO'Brien: affecting new work from Hugo Williams, John Burnside and Christopher Reid

Rain by Don Paterson

The Sunday Times review by Alan Brownjohn: an impressively personal and poignant collection from the winner of this year's Forward prize

The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 1 & 2 edited by Valerie Eliot and Hugh Haughton

The great poet was driven to the brink by his wife’s breakdown, as the first two collections of his letters reveal

So what if I copied, says former Poet Laureate

Shakespeare did it all the time, says the former Poet Laureate, and there is an honourable tradition of using others' work

Plagiarism? No, all real artists are magpies

There are no hard and fast rules for this kind of stuff, but we do live in a world where “sampling” is easier and easier to do

Winning the Times Stephen Spender prize for translation

George Szirtes

Seamus Heaney on translating Henryson's 'The Testament of Cresseid'

The Nobel laureate talks to the winner of this year’s Times Stephen Spender prize about the charms and challenges of translation

A window to the soul of John Keats

As the Romantic poet is celebrated in a major film, our writer searches for his spirit in the city in which he died

John Keats: How to write a love letter

It’s never too late to become a Romantic poet. Our expert looks at the passion that drives us to verse and provides guidance on how to craft a...

Letters debunk myth of TS Eliot's cruelty

A new volume of letters helps to restore the writer's reputation

Open Minds: Glyn Hughes

Here’s to the old, says the poet, 74½. It’s time to extol their creative virtues

Byron’s vitriolic letters set auction record

Correspondence describing affair, attacking Christianity and dismissing William 'Turdsworth' fetches more than £250,000

Anti-gay mayor welcomes Walt Whitman statue

Hillary Clinton unveils statue of poet during a ceremony in Moscow attended by Yuri Luzhkov, who called gay people ‘satanic’

TS Eliot moves from wasteland to mainstream

The poet once considered too hard to read is voted the nation's favourite ahead of Donne, Kipling and Wordsworth