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  • Monday, 19 February, 2024
    HTSI
    The poet who talks to walls

    LionHeart uses verse to explore architecture

    Rhael Cape, aka LionHeart
  • Wednesday, 31 January, 2024
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    The Vast Extent — sight, perception and all we cannot see

    Art and science align in Lavinia Greenlaw’s thought-provoking essay collection about the power and limitations of our senses

    A watercolour painting of clouds in pale washed-out blue and grey
  • Friday, 8 December, 2023
    ObituaryBenjamin Zephaniah
    Benjamin Zephaniah, poet, 1958-2023

    A self-described ‘writer, lyricist, musician and naughty boy’, he was concerned with action as much as aesthetics

    Benjamin Zephaniah blended warm Brummie-patois tones and an ear for language with an acute desire to speak for his communities, a sense of humour and a commitment to social justice
  • Saturday, 18 November, 2023
    FT SeriesBest books of the year 2023
    Best books of 2023 — Poetry

    Maria Crawford selects her must-read titles

    Montage of book covers
  • Friday, 29 September, 2023
    The Poem: ‘Hackney Road’, by Amy Acre

    From the London-born poet’s new collection ‘Mothersong’

  • Monday, 11 September, 2023
    InterviewVisual Arts
    Artist Julianknxx: ‘There’s a release and relief when people sing together’

    The Sierra Leonean filmmaker’s new installation at London’s Barbican features videos with choirs performing his poems

    In a still from a video, in front of an old church, a person wearing a long beaded headdress puts their hands together as if in prayer
  • Friday, 8 September, 2023
    InterviewTheatre
    Poet Lemn Sissay: ‘This is about how a family can turn against one of their own’

    The author’s adaptation of Kafka’s ‘Metamorphosis’ tackles darkness while his book of dawn poems looks to the light

    A man in a suit sitting on a chair
  • Tuesday, 18 July, 2023
    ReviewBiography and memoir
    Osip Mandelstam — a Russian poet who could not be silent

    Ralph Dutli’s rounded biography of the Soviet-era writer murdered by Stalin deftly examines his literary legacy

  • Friday, 14 July, 2023
    Books
    The Poem: ‘Woman Returns to Childhood Home, Carries Out an Act of Theft’ by Rebecca Goss

    From ‘Latch’, the Suffolk poet’s latest collection

  • Monday, 3 July, 2023
    FT live news
    Live news update from July 4: Thames Water faces ‘huge resistance’ from investors, seven injured in attack in Tel Aviv
  • Friday, 23 June, 2023
    Summer Books 2023
    Best summer books of 2023: Poetry

    Maria Crawford selects her best mid-year reads

    book covers montage
  • Wednesday, 7 June, 2023
    ReviewBiography and memoir
    Sleeping on Islands — Andrew Motion reflects on a life in poetry

    The former poet laureate’s second memoir charts a brilliant career underpinned by his ability to network

    Andrew Motion talks to pupils during the launch of the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Poetry Competition at Buckingham Palace
  • Saturday, 20 May, 2023
    Q&AThe Questionnaire
    Poet Will Harris: ‘The trait I find most irritating in others? An excessive love of fascism’

    The writer on mentors, his Tubby Custard obsession and free will

  • Wednesday, 10 May, 2023
    Music
    Onassis Foundation’s quest to spread the words of CP Cavafy

    The foundation is celebrating the poet’s work with events in Greece and beyond, including one in New York featuring Laurie Anderson

    A woman plays violin with her eyes closed; behind her sit a number of women
  • Saturday, 6 May, 2023
    Q&AThe Questionnaire
    Joseph Coelho: ‘We grow through suffering. That doesn’t make it any less difficult’

    The poet, playwright and author on the origins of his new book ‘Budgie’, and learning to face his fears

  • Friday, 28 April, 2023
    Nilanjana Roy
    Enheduana, the woman who wrote before the rest

    A new translation brings to life the astonishing voice of the Sumerian princess who was a poet, a priestess — and the world’s first named author

  • Monday, 17 April, 2023
    FT live news
    Live news updates from April 17: Corporate defaults surge, Treasury bills sell at 22-year yield high
  • Wednesday, 4 January, 2023
    Nilanjana Roy
    Why a Tamil classic makes a perfect start to 2023

    A new translation does justice to the joyous treatment of love and desire in the ‘Tirukkural’

    A woman touches the feet of a large statue
  • Saturday, 26 November, 2022
    FT SeriesBest books of the year 2022
    Best books of 2022: Poetry

    Maria Crawford selects her must-read titles

  • Wednesday, 5 October, 2022
    FT live news
    Live news updates from October 6: Lukashenko bans price rises, Biden pardons pot convictions
  • Saturday, 3 September, 2022
    The Poem: ‘I was grotesque with summer, haloed’ by Cecilia Knapp

    An extract from ‘Peach Pig’, the forthcoming debut collection of the Young People’s Laureate for London

  • Wednesday, 10 August, 2022
    The poem: ‘Larch’ by Jo Clement

    From ‘Outlandish’, the Darlington poet’s first collection

  • Friday, 1 July, 2022
    The Poem: ‘Inheritance’ by Olivia Harrison

    From ‘Came the Lightening’, a collection dedicated to George Harrison on the 20th anniversary of his death

  • Friday, 24 June, 2022
    Summer Books 2022
    Best summer books of 2022: Poetry

    Maria Crawford selects her best mid-year reads

  • Friday, 3 June, 2022
    The Elizabethan age
    Ben Okri: three sonatas for a Queen

    The acclaimed poet writes specially for FTWeekend to mark the jubilee

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