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Motion 'rips off historian' in Remembrance poem

09.11.09
Sir Andrew Motion has been accused of 'ripping off' a military historian's research for his Remembrance Sunday poem about shell-shocked soldiers... more

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

£20 million of art received in death deals

05.11.09
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Finding a copy of your free Evening Standard

12.10.09
Your London Evening Standard is now available through more than 500 retailers in an effort to meet overwhelming demand since it became a free newspaper... more

What Universities have done for us

28.09.09
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Please don’t tell me my hero has feet of clay

25.09.09
I am in mourning for one of my favourite Sixties pop songs, California Dreamin’, by The Mamas and the Papas ... more

A fitting tribute to the greatest Cockney poet - John Keats

24.07.09
With Keats House, the Heritage Lottery executives have got it right and bestowed their largesse on preserving something priceless... more

Tennis - it's a fortnight, not a game

29.06.09
SPORTING events turn us all into instant experts. Cometh the World Cup, cometh our intimate knowledge of "catenaccio" and Cameroonian goalkeepers. Then, when the jamboree folds up, so does our dossier of facile judgments.... more

Triumph of love and tax: Titian left to the nation goes on show

23.06.09
A £1million painting by Titian given to the nation in lieu of death taxes will go on show at the National Gallery next month... more

Concert celebrates Cambridge's 800th anniversary

23.06.09
The City of London Festival programme juxtaposed two big choral pieces by Peter Maxwell Davies with a new one by John Harle.... more

Champion of picture books named Children's Laureate

09.06.09
Author and illustrator Anthony Browne was announced as the Children's Laureate, and described how picture books helped families to bond... more

London is a poet's playground

22.05.09
From Seamus Heaney's Underground underworld to Andrew Motion's Thames trek, London is a poet's playground. Adam O'Riordan explores the capital's text appeal... more

Sound check: My word! It's a rap

22.05.09
Rising MC Speech Debelle is the latest performer to bring music to Bookslam, the literary nightclub that's breaking new ground.... more

Keats casts spell on Cannes star

15.05.09
Rising star Ben Whishaw has described falling in love with the poetry of John Keats as he prepared for his new movie, a contender for the Palme d’Or prize at Cannes... 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

Ten years late, this lesbian icon is the right poet for the nation

01.05.09
After considerable dithering and havering, Carol Ann Duffy has agreed to take on the position of Poet Laureate... 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

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

Let's not panic - at least, not yet

29.04.09
The very possibility that swine fever has reached Clapham has brought the global scare uncomfortably close to home in London... more

Locals reveal world heritage with museum treasures

28.04.09
Hidden stores of the nation’s museums will be opened up as part of the Olympic cultural legacy in a £6 million scheme... more

No room for me at this Chatto reunion

01.04.09
One of my first jobs after leaving university was to work for the feminist publisher Carmen Callil... more

American boy makes good

18.03.09
I think I owe Kevin Spacey a belated apology... more

Cherish the Victorians' style and vision - but don't forget their slums

06.03.09
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Newcomer wins £15,000 poetry prize after tragic death of rival

13.01.09
A newcomer has beaten favourites Glyn Maxwell and Mick Imlah to take one of the most prestigious prizes in poetry... more

Here’s the Queen’s church, here’s the steeple ...

13.01.09
... and inside the newly renovated St Martin-in-the-Fields there’s still room for all the homeless people...... more

Tributes pour in for legendary literary agent Pat Kavanagh

21.10.08
Tributes poured in for Pat Kavanagh, the legendary literary agent and wife of novelist Julian Barnes, who has died from a brain tumour... more

Being Laureate does not inspire poetry in Motion

10.09.08
The Poet Laureate has revealed that during his nine years in the role his works have failed to provoke a single response from the Queen... 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

Stand up for Larkin, the true poet of the people

29.02.08
When Philip Larkin died in 1985, he was much the best-loved poet since the war (with the possible exception of Betjeman). That all changed with the publication of Larkin's previously uncollected poems and, in 1992, his Selected Letters. They revealed a lot more about Larkin and earned him excoriation as a racist and misogynist, fascist and porn addict... more

I was a bard behind bars, says Doherty

03.10.06
Pete Doherty has revealed how poetry kept him sane during his time behind bars. He said he adopted a character inspired by the French poet Paul Verlaine to survive.... more

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