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‘I have only ever tried to show you beauty’: Florence Welch’s ‘Useless Magic’

Kate Haselden considers how the publication of Florence Welch's first book proves her affinity for beauty, and talent as an artist, extends beyond music into poetry

Pablo Neruda’s subtle patterns show us how to feel

The brilliant simplicity of the Chilean poet is his greatest strength

Angel Hill review – ‘It may be simple, but it isn’t empty’

Michael Longley’s Forward Prize short-listed collection is elegant and timeless, writes Barney Pite

The opening of a closed cultural world

One combative poem has a lot to reveal about the place of artists under Soviet rule, Charlie Baker writes

Grief pushes music to its conceptual limits

Mount Eerie's 'A Crow Looked at Me' may seem like an abstract experiment, but with its personal context it is deeply affecting

Life Divided: Oxlove

Maxim Parr-Reid and James Lamming debate the vices and virtues of Oxford’s most amatory Facebook page

“A woman sitting alone, doing nothing”

Tilly Nevin reviews Mary Ruefle’s stunning and startling new collection 'My Private Property'

Oxford poet wins prestigious award

The director of Oxford Business College is to receive an award for his poetry, written in Hindi

SLAM: Poetry that isn’t afraid to make an impact

William Hosie investigates how the art of slam challenges our assumptions about poetry

Cecil Day-Lewis: Auden’s overlooked classmate

Theo Davies-Lewis reveals the poet's fruitful and inspiring, though perhaps not academically successful, time in Oxford

Profile: Wendy Cope

Poet Wendy Cope on teaching, parodies, and writing what we are all thinking

Walking the pilgrim’s way

Looking back at his exhibition 'We will meet', Alvin Ong tells Sophie Jordan of his walks along the thin line between memory and fiction

Home is where the art is: Helen Pinkney

Bill Freeman investigates his artist godmother’s inspirations and her relation to the process of creation

W.H. Auden’s return to Christ Church

In the sixth instalment of Through the Looking Glass, Daniel Curtis follows in the footsteps of W.H. Auden

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