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Louis MacNeice

June 2019

  • Geoffrey Faber, centre, and TS Eliot, left, at a Faber & Faber directors meeting in 1944 to discuss how best to use the paper ration.

    Faber & Faber: by Toby Faber review – the untold story of a publishing giant

    They turned down Ulysses and Animal Farm, but still shaped 20th‑century literature

December 2017

  • Walter Frederick Osborne (1859-1903) Apple Gathering, Quimperlé, 1883 Collection: National Gallery of Ireland Photo © National Gallery of Ireland

    Carol Rumens's poem of the week
    Poem of the week – Walter Osborne: Apple Gathering, Quimperlé by Frank Ormsby

    A richly described Victorian painting of a harvest scene is full of innocent joy, shadowed by what history would soon bring to the fields of northern France

October 2017

  • Monumental … rehearsals for The Dark Tower at St Bartholomew’s church, Orford.

    Britten and MacNeice's Dark Tower: recreating a visionary radio landmark

    Written in 1945, Louis MacNeice’s play delves into the trauma of war and the poet’s personal shadows, and was an inspired collaboration with Benjamin Britten. Now Robin Brooks is set to restage the iconic first broadcast

November 2016

  • ‘The waiter did not come, the clock / forgot them’ ... a young couple sit by the window of a cafe.

    Carol Rumens's poem of the week
    Poem of the week: Meeting Point by Louis MacNeice

    Written in a time of ever greater division, this beguiling love poem celebrates two lovers’ almost mystical union

October 2016

  • Delia Davin

    Delia Davin obituary

    A pioneer of Chinese women’s studies who avoided the stereotypes offered by the communist regime and its critics

June 2016

  • Derek Mahon

    New Selected Poems by Derek Mahon review – lyrics of crystalline wonder

  • The Library and reading room in the British Museum

    Poster poems
    Poster poems: buildings

May 2016

  • French activist and poet Jean-Baptiste Redde, aka Voltuan, holds a placard reading "police state is the death of democracy" as people gather on the Place de la Republique in Paris on May 3, 2016 during the "Nuit Debout" ("Up All Night") movement to protest against the government's labour reform bill. French Labour Minister Myriam El Khomri staunchly defended the government's contested labour reform bill ON May 3 as it finally reached parliament after sparking two months of mass protests. / AFP PHOTO / PHILIPPE LOPEZPHILIPPE LOPEZ/AFP/Getty Images

    Poster poems
    Poster poems: politics

    As bruising electoral battles rage on around us, it’s a good time to remember that poets can raise their voices for public causes, too. Please add your voice below

February 2015

  • Clive James, books

    Poetry Notebook 2006-2014 review – Clive James’s absorbing thoughts on verse

    Clive James champions the poems that have given him most pleasure in this provocative collection of essays

September 2014

  • Sir John Betjeman, poetry book opf month

    Six Poets: Hardy to Larkin review – Alan Bennett’s favourite poets

  • Snow by Vidyan Ravinthiran

    Carol Rumens's poem of the week
    Poem of the week: Snow by Vidyan Ravinthiran

December 2013

  • Estelle Serpell - other lives obituary

    Other lives
    Estelle Serpell obituary

    Other lives: Teacher of literature, longstanding voluntary worker and campaigner for liberal causes

November 2013

  • C.S. Lewis In Oxford

    CS Lewis's literary legacy: 'dodgy and unpleasant' or 'exceptionally good'?

    It's 50 years since CS Lewis died. His legacy encompasses far more than just Narnia – Rowan Williams, AS Byatt, Philip Pullman and others give their thoughts on his body of work

March 2013

  • Roses in snow by Christopher Thomond

    Carol Rumens's poem of the week
    Poem of the week: The snow whirls over the courtyard's roses by Tua Forsström

    Poetry through cinema is expressed in Forsström's intensely visual work, inspired by film-maker Andrei Tarkovsky

February 2013

  • Poets Imtiaz Dharker, Arun Kolatkar, Louis MacNeice and Elizabeth Bishop

    The Guardian Books podcast
    Guardian Books poetry podcast: Imtiaz Dharker reads Elizabeth Bishop, Louis MacNeice and Arun Kolatkar

    Imtiaz Dharker launches our second week of poets choosing their favourite poems with a dazzling trio: One Art by Elizabeth Bishop, Meeting Point by Louis MacNeice and Yeshwant Rao by Arun Kolatkar

June 2010

  • Louis Macneice

    Book of the week
    Letters of Louis MacNeice edited by Jonathan Allison

    Louis MacNeice's letters show the poet's reserved but boundless curiosity. By Andrew Motion

February 2009

  • The Saturday poem
    Bottleneck by Louis MacNeice

    Never to fight unless from a pure motive
    And for a clear end was his unwritten rule ...

October 2007

  • Missing Louis MacNeice

    Christopher Harvie

    Christopher Harvie: The first casualty of the 1930s poets became the great survivor, but MacNeice's province-metropolitan compromise ran out of road.

March 2007

  • The Saturday poem
    Bottleneck by Louis MacNeice

    Never to fight unless from a pure motive

    And for a clear end was his unwritten rule

    Who had been in books and visions to a progressive school ...

January 2007

  • The sudden world

    Anthony Thwaite welcomes a new Collected Poems to mark Louis MacNeice's centenary year.

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