Shortlisted TS Eliot prize poets speak to a disrupted world
The 10 listed collections range from ‘zany intimacy’ by Sharon Olds to explorations of Black identity from Ishion Hutchinson and Jason Allen-Paisant
January 2023
Balladz by Sharon Olds review – insights and elegies
From pandemic poems to homages to Emily Dickinson, the American poet’s new work is intimate and heart-stirring
February 2022
Shall I compare thee to a frozen food aisle? How to write a love poem in 2022
In a world where emotions are cheap and the truth even cheaper, how can we write authentic odes to our beloved? Sharon Olds, Maged Zaher and Lil Nas X show one poet the way
January 2020
Poetry book of the month: Arias by Sharon Olds – review
Sharon Olds’s brilliant new collection, an exploration of intimacy and estrangement, is her most moving yet
March 2019
Kate Clanchy: ‘Poetry makes children feel important, that they’re heard’
The writer and schoolteacher on poetry’s power to inspire the young
February 2018
Top 10s
Top 10 books about cheating
From illicit James Salter to category-defying Jeanette Winterson, here are the best contemporary works about romantic infidelity
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
October 2016
Book of the day
Odes by Sharon Olds review – in praise of tampons and other taboos
A new collection from the TS Eliot prizewinner finds beauty in the outrages visited on ageing bodies
September 2016
Sharon Olds wins $100,000 Wallace Stevens poetry award
The American poet, who has also won the TS Eliot prize and the Pulitzer, is credited for her ‘outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry’
April 2013
Saturday interview
Miranda Richardson: 'I hate our sneering attitude to success'
Miranda Richardson is one of Britain's leading actors, and this year is chair of judges for the Women's prize for fiction. On one thing she is clear: leave Hilary Mantel alone, she's brilliant
February 2013
Sylvia Plath: reflections on her legacy
The Bell Jar was published less than a month before Sylvia Plath killed herself on 11 February 1963. To mark the 50th anniversary of her death, writers and poets reflect on what her work means to them
January 2013
Sharon Olds: Confessions of a divorce
Sharon Olds's silence is golden in an era of endless media exposure
Catherine Bennett
The Guardian Books podcast
Guardian Books podcast: Women writers - Austen, Plath, Olds and Segal
Crane.tv videos
Sharon Olds on transforming life into art – video
Sharon Olds wins TS Eliot poetry prize for Stag's Leap collection on divorce
Sharon Olds: 'I want a poem to be useful'
October 2012
TS Eliot prize for poetry announces 'fresh, bold' shortlist
