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A captivating love story in Bright Star

06.11.09
Jane Campion's Bright Star is full of confidence about its artistic vision and genuinely poetic, says Andrew O'Hagan... more

The wasteland that was T.S Eliot's first marriage

05.11.09
It was a young and tragic marriage. T.S. Eliot's first wife Vivien Haigh-Wood suffered from a severe hormonal illness that required constant medical treatment, exacerbating an already hysterical nature... more

Celebs are now invading the world of poetry

03.09.09
Celebrity endorsements are the latest proof of poetry's new-found fashionability... more

Pick up some smart art: Six young British artists to watch

17.07.09
Move over Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst - a new wave of British artists is emerging. For canny investors, now may be the time to start collecting such work... more

Duffy sets up Ted Hughes prize with laureate cash

09.07.09
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Follow the rules to enjoy wild swimming in London

08.07.09
As warnings are issued about bathing in lakes and rivers, Kate Rew, founder of the Outdoor Swimming Society, says they can be enjoyed safely by following a few simple rules... more

A poetic masterpiece that must be heard

30.06.09
Language "caught alive" is an intoxicating experience in all poetry - the sound is "the gold in the ore", said Robert Frost - and most particularly so with the poems of TS Eliot... more

Sense - first casualty in war on drugs

15.06.09
Nice people take drugs." These are the four words considered so dangerous, so irresponsible, that advertising authorities have banned them from appearing on the side of London buses. Pathetic, no?... more

Dame Helen Mirren sets pulse sprinting in Phèdre

12.06.09
Dame Helen Mirren evokes Phèdre's conflicted identity with skittish command. She is a heroic lover, yet also viciously self-lacerating.... more

Duffy to donate Laureate money to poetry prize

01.05.09
Carol Ann Duffy, who will be unveiled as the new Poet Laureate, will give up her stipend to fund an annual poetry prize... more

Forget 'honorary jokes': Carol Ann can show us why poetry matters

01.05.09
With its token £5,750-a-year salary and case of wine for your trouble, our Poet Laureateship has long been what the outgoing laureate Andrew Motion has affectionately termed an "honorary joke"... more

The two poets in Motion's slipstream

29.04.09
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Duffy dithers over whether to become first female laureate

29.04.09
The appointment of the new Poet Laureate descended into farce as the woman offered the role pondered over whether to accept it... more

Morpurgo: War Horse is a story I had to write

31.03.09
As the award-winning adaptation of his Great War novel transfers to the West End, Michael Morpurgo pays tribute to the eight million noble beasts that perished in the trenches.... more

F***! – New film In the Loop restores swearing to an art form

27.03.09
In the Loop, the film extension of The Thick of It, isn't released for three weeks yet but it is already making waves... more

Ted Hughes death 'was catalyst for son to take his own life'

25.03.09
The death of poet Ted Hughes and not the suicide of his mother Sylvia Plath, finally drove their son to take his own life... more

History repeats as Sylvia Plath’s son kills himself

23.03.09
With the discovery that Nicholas Hughes hanged himself at the age of 47, a cruel and bitter legacy of depression and suicide continues to haunt one of Britain’s most famous literary families... more

His parents were writers of very dangerous books

23.03.09
Suicide can run in families. Three of the four brothers of the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein killed themselves. ... more

Ted Hughes' son found hanged

23.03.09
The widow of Ted Hughes has broken a lifetime of virtual silence about her turbulent family to express sadness at her stepson's suicide... more

'Brilliant' poet fights disease to collect prize

09.10.08
A poet galvanised into finishing his first collection for 20 years by the onset of terminal motor neurone disease has won one of the most prestigious prizes in poetry... more

Mirren returns to the National in Phèdre title role

17.09.08
Dame Helen Mirren will return to the National Theatre to appear as a woman in love with her stepson... more

Sean Connery: The story of a brilliant but deeply flawed man

08.08.08
Word is that Sean Connery's upcoming autobiography is a heavily sanitised account of his tempestuous life. Starting today, a major Mail series reveals the real story of this brilliant but deeply flawed man. ... more

Scoop up the free theatre

31.07.08
You get a spectacular historial riverside setting at The Scoop. The actors perform whatever the weather. And it's free.... more

Bring some romance into choosing our Poet Laureate

20.05.08
In some ways, Andrew Motion has been the perfect Poet Laureate. As a poet, Motion has never shown the tiniest inkling of talent at any point in his career - and this lucky chance has freed him to perform the public duties of the laureateship without anybody worrying that he is betraying his genius... more

Diana crash painting goes on display

16.07.07
A previously unseen painting of Princess Diana's fatal car crash is the latest controversial work from artist Stella Vine. ... more

How 007 made us love him

05.02.07
Bond, Borat and British cinema - our Evening Standard film awards judges reveal how they chose the winners.... more

War chronicler turns his focus on men of God

31.01.07
Don McCullin, a rakish, atheist war photographer, says he is just the person to take the pictures of religious leaders going on show at the National Portrait Gallery.... more

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