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Catherine Czerkawska investigates Robert Burns’s artistic debt to his often-overlooked wife, Jean Armour. Robert Burns is better known for his…
The voices of enslaved people are almost entirely lost to history. Bristolian novelist Sanjida O’Connell seeks to fill that terrible…
Imogen Lycett Green, curator of the Betjeman Poetry Prize, asks what poetry prizes can do for children. Her grandfather was…
Emily Diamand calls for a new kind of utopian fiction, to help stave off environmental disaster. New thinking on public…
Linda Buckley-Archer argues that writers should experiment with form and genre, not settle into cosy monogamy. Adaptations are everywhere. Less…
Sarah LeFanu searches for the ghosts of Doyle and Kipling in Bloemfontein. Travelling for biographical research can lead to all…
Are travel guidebooks for travellers or readers? John Keay sets out to answer a 200-year-old question. Travel guidebooks burst with…
Christina Koning wonders why she made her fictional detective blind. Campaigners are calling for more fiction – particularly children’s and…
Donny O’Rourke traces his poetry back to his father’s long musical silence. In Scotland the seannachie is a bard who…
Yorkshire hip-hop playwright Jonny Wright claims African-American culture as his own. The distinctive culture created by African-Americans in the shadow…
Playwright Shaun McCarthy couldn’t get Don Carlo Gesualdo out of his head, so he put him on stage. The dark,…
Poet and novelist Tom Bryan ponders the writers who chose to disappear – and those who disappeared anyway. A walk…
