Winning the Times Stephen Spender prize for translation

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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

Lumley leads way on charity album of poetry

A group of actors are hoping to emulate chart success of Dame Vera Lynn with new album to raise money for charity

Alfred Brendel on retiring from the concert hall

The great pianist’s fingers may finally be in repose after his retirement last year at 78, but his pen is busy

The subversive poet with a voice like birdsong

U. A. Fanthorpe's work won her official favour but she chose to stay an outsider says Anthony Thwaite

Why Edwin Morgan is still Scotland’s best-loved poet

With more than half a century of dazzling verse to his name, Morgan is the inspiration for an international competition. This year’s winner...

Jim Downer & Ted Hughes's excellent adventure

A lost Ted Hughes children's poem finally sees the light of day after more than 50 years

Jeanette Winterson interviews Carol Ann Duffy, the Poet Laureate

In Carol Ann Duffy’s first interview since writing a tribute to First World War veteran Harry Patch, the Poet Laureate talks about her new...