Blending science, fantasy, and feminism, this is an unpretentious work that dances lightly over its weighty concerns
March 2016
Poetry Society top prize explores familial discord
Eric Berlin wins prestigious award with poem Night Errand, while David Morley takes Ted Hughes prize
May 2014
Rosemary Tonks, the lost poet
Rosemary Tonks was a feted poet, trenchant reviewer and literary socialite. And then she 'disappeared'. Following her death last month, Neil Astley traces her extraordinary story
April 2013
Sylvia Plath gets all-star tribute for Ariel anniversary
Actors and poets including Juliet Stevenson and Jo Shapcott will gather to recite the entire collection
February 2013
The Guardian Books podcast
Guardian Books poetry podcast: Jo Shapcott reads Emily Dickinson
Jo Shapcott kicks off a new series of poets reading from their favourite work by another author. Shapcott picks Emily Dickinson
July 2012
London 2012: Poetry in the Olympic Park – in pictures
Take a look at the poems from Carol Ann Duffy, Jo Shapcott, Alfred Tennyson and others which Winning Words have woven into the fabric of the Olympic Park
April 2012
Sixty years in poems
Poetry Parnassus to gather poets from every Olympic nation
March 2012
Guardian Open Weekend
Artists, performers and politicians on the Guardian Open Weekend
Some of the speakers at the festival of ideas and open journalism share their highlights and reflections
December 2011
Jo Shapcott wins Queen's gold medal for poetry
Close-up poetry
Jo Shapcott reads her poem I Go Inside the Tree - video
July 2011
Books blog
Forward poetry prize: who got rid of the women?
Sarah Crown: The all-male shortlist for this year's prize is sadly true to form. But apportioning blame is not easy
January 2011
Jo Shapcott: the book of life
Jo Shapcott's poetry collection Of Mutability won the Costa prize this week. She talks here about how cancer transformed her outlook – and her work
Jo Shapcott takes Costa book of the year award for Of Mutability
Bookies' favourite Edmund de Waal misses out as judges praise Shapcott's 'very special and unusual and uplifting' collection
Books blog
Jo Shapcott's Costa prize is a surprise victory for poetry
Charlotte Higgins on culture
Who should win the Costa?
Costa book awards 2010
August 2010
Of Mutability by Jo Shapcott
Jo Shapcott's enigmatic poems fight shy of referring directly to her battle with cancer, writes Kate Kellaway
July 2010
The Guardian Books podcast
A special prizes podcast, with Emma Donoghue and Jo Shapcott
A life in ...
Jo Shapcott: I'm not someone chasing her own ambulance
