Montreal metallers Big Brave on doom, despondency and Emily Dickinson: ‘We’re sick as a species’
For their latest album, the heavy trio delved into poetry archives to foreground work by female writers and tell stories of the ‘subjugation of femininity’ across nature and humanity
March 2024
Carol Rumens's poem of the week
Poem of the week: The saddest noise, the sweetest noise by Emily Dickinson
Taylor Swift is related to Emily Dickinson, genealogy company reveals
July 2023
Country diary
Country diary: The orb-weaver spider is still optimistic of a good harvest
The last word
The last word on: Hope
June 2023
Carol Rumens's poem of the week
Poem of the week: She rose to His Requirement by Emily Dickinson
Written at a wry distance from such matters, the poet considers what other women are giving away in marriage
August 2022
Ana Luísa Amaral obituary
Portuguese poet of the everyday and translator of works by Emily Dickinson and Shakespeare’s sonnets
June 2022
‘A little bit addictive and the right amount hard’: new video game is based on poems of Emily Dickinson
The 80s-style shooter EmilyBlaster is a real-life version of a game featured in Gabrielle Zevin’s forthcoming novel Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
March 2022
‘I felt different as a child. I was nearly mute’: Elena Ferrante in conversation with Elizabeth Strout
The author of the Neapolitan quartet and the Pulitzer prize-winning novelist discuss identity, ambition, truth – and the ‘convulsive’ urge to write
January 2021
Carol Rumens's poem of the week
Poem of the week: Under the Light, yet under by Emily Dickinson
Like so many of her great poems, this almost-riddle combines a childlike simplicity with great complexity
December 2020
The Guardian view on advent: what are we waiting for?
Editorial: This year we have learned to mark time once more – bringing frustration and despair, but also new pleasures
June 2020
History remixed: the rise of the anachronistic female lead
The lives of women from history, from Catherine the Great to Shirley Jackson, are being brought to the screen with a radical focus on character over facts
May 2020
Carol Rumens's poem of the week
Poem of the week: Of Bronze — and Blaze (319) by Emily Dickinson
This fizzing response to seeing the Northern Lights steps carefully around cosmic visions
October 2019
TV review
Dickinson review – Emily Dickinson reborn as a Lizzo-loving feminist
A half-baked comedy series rewrites the life of the American poet as a defiant feminist who ignores chores and delivers clunky dialogue
September 2019
Britten Sinfonia / Gourlay review – Turnage and Clayton sing out for refugees
Poems on displacement by Benjamin Zephaniah, Brian Bilston, Dickinson and Auden drive a weighty new song cycle by Mark-Anthony Turnage, delivered masterfully by Allan Clayton
August 2019
From Little Women to Dickinson: how modernised should adaptations be?
Recent trailers for Greta Gerwig’s take on Louisa May Alcott and Hailee Steinfeld as a punk rock Emily Dickinson suggest a resurgence for 1860s literary women
January 2019
Book of the week
Not Working by Josh Cohen - the benefits of idleness
Back to work blues? What we can learn from slackers
March 2018
Up in smoke: should an author's dying wishes be obeyed?
Harper Lee never wanted Go Set a Watchman brought out, Sylvia Plath’s diary was burned by Ted Hughes – the controversial world of literary legacies
October 2017
Notebook
They're patient, complex and poetic – so stop calling them snowflakes
Christina Patterson
The writer Christina Patterson says she has seen the future of poetry, and it’s in safe hands
