January to May 2009
28 May Duffy: Love poetry hardest to write
28 May Urdd Poetry prize - no one good enough to win
28 May Who now for Oxford president?
27 May Poets have always been immoral
27 May Padel relieved to quit
26 May Ruth Padel resigns
26 May Carol Ann Duffy: writing, not royalty
26 May Glastonbury to hold 'Literary University'
26 May Wales Book Of The Year & Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch
24 May Simon Armitage to go to Afghanistan
23 May Fewer people than ever recite poetry
22 May Book trade top 100 revealed
22 May Salt campaigns for survival
21 May Kids' poetry in downward spiral
21 May University libraries to cut book spend
21 May Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets
21 May Benjamin Zephaniah interviewed
21 May Clive James poem to Derek Walcott
20 May Mario Benedetti
20 May 400 years young: Shakespeare's Sonnets
20 May Auden poems
19 May Laureate inspired by MPs' expenses scandal
18 May John Atkins
18 May Yoko Ono, Jackie Kay to judge Twitter poetry competition
18 May BBC Poetry Season
17 May Ruth Padel is Oxford poetry professor
16 May Faber and Faber turns 80
16 May James Kirkup
15 May Michael Murphy former winner of The Poetry Society's Geoffrey Dearmer Prize has died.
13 May Maurice Lindsay
13 May Obama to throw poetry party
12 May Walcott withdraws from Oxford poetry professor race
11 May Germaine Greer on new Laureate
10 May Adam Foulds interviewed
9 May Bono's 'Elvis' poem
8 May Search for Craig Arnold called off
8 May Clive James: poetry will never leave us
5 May National Curriculum stifling creativity says Andrew Motion
5 May David Harsent on Laureate
3 May New generation of poets
3 May Emma Jones appointed Wordsworth Trust poet in residence
1 May Carol Ann Duffy donates Laureate money to Poetry Society. BBC Woman's Hour interview
1 May Poet Craig Arnold missing
1 May U A Fanthorpe
1 May Tom McGrath
1 May Advice to the new Laureate. Carol Ann Duffy profile
31/4 Duffy to be named as Laureate tomorrow?
30/4 Judge quotes Larkin in divorce case
29/4 Why are poets so fascinated by birds? Bird poem quiz
29/4 Number taking GCSE in English Literature falls
29/4 Carol Ann Duffy yet to decide on Laureate
28/4 Edwin Morgan backs Carol Ann Duffy as Laureate
25/4 Carol Ann Duffy tipped as Poet Laureate. Betting closed.
25/4 Blackwell launches Print-On-Demand Trial in UK
25/4 Afghan poets tackle scars of war
24/4 WS Merwin wins Pulitzer Prize for poetry
23/4 Indian poet joins race for Oxford poetry professor
23/4 5 poets listed for Wales Book of the Year
22/4 Britain needs a black Poet Laureate
18/4 August Kleinzahler interviewed
17/4 Poets take up a new muse - modern technology
17/4 PEN condemns publication of Karadzic poems
17/4 Former Poetry Society Director interviews Andrew Motion
16/4 Seamus Heaney backs Geoffrey Hill for Laureate
16/4 Arts Council and BBC 'Made in England' project
15/4 Slambassador winner, Haroon Anwar, is finalist on BBC2's The Speaker
11/4 7 steps to become a poet: includes Foyle Young Poet and National poetry competitions
11/4 10 rising stars of British poetry, including former Foyle Young Poets James Byrne and Amy Blakemore
9/4 Seamus Heaney interviewed
8/4 Teacher protest over Carol Ann Duffy ban. Guardian letters
7/4 Christopher James's workshop, Poetry Society's National Poetry Competition winner
7/4 Faber's 80th anniversary: win books and 52 poems widget
7/4 Iain Sinclair's secret London in verse
5/4 Oxford Professor of poetry: 2 horse race
2/4 Spring in literature quiz
2/4 Can civilians write war poetry?
1/4 Larkin's first interview
30/3 Poet Laureate - runners and riders (BBC)
30/3 Scottish literature to be cut from English GCSE
30/3 Andrew Motion thrilled to be able to devote himself to his own poetry
29/3 Michael Donaghy remembered
28/3 Judith Palmer on The Poetry Society's centenary
28/3 A Poet Laureate should work harder
27/3 Poetry from the front line
25/3 The end of verse?
25/3 Charles Evans, 2nd place in Poetry Society's National Poetry Competition
25/3 Christopher James wins Poetry Society's National Poetry Competition
25/3 Ben Okri releases new poem on Twitter
24/3 Nicholas Hughes
23/3 Could poetry help defeat symptoms of dementia?
23/3 Foyle Young Poets launch reviewed
23/3 Mental illness: an occupational hazard for poets?
22/3 Robert Burns meets Iggy Pop in new musical
22/3 Simon Armitage favourite for Poet Laureate
21/3 What the Romantics could teach the G20 world leaders
21/3 Andrew Motion: the pleasures and pitfalls of being Poet Laureate. Parting shot
21/3 The history of the Poet Laureate post
20/3 New radio play based on R S Thomas's marriage
19/3 Seamus Heaney wins David Cohen prize for lifetime achievement and chooses poems to sum up his poetry
17/3 Next Poet Laureate has hard act to follow
17/3 Boris Johnson: learn poetry
15/3 Derek Walcott joins race to become Oxford professor of poetry
15/3 Off by Heart verse-reciting competition: an untapped hunger for poetry
13/3 Gary Young wins Poetry Society of America award
11/3 Duffy and Padel in race for poetry's top jobs
11/3 Audiobooks have changed the future
10/3 Amy Winehouse turns to poetry for inspiration
9/3 Sir John Major wrote secret poetry
9/3 Hats off to the Candlestick Press
9/3 Poet Laureate dedicates new collection to his muse
3/3 Poetry is the cornerstone of civilisation
3/3 Uncovered Ted Hughes play
2/3 Internet causing a poetry boom!
2/3 Poetry is back!
2/3 Does the collision of poetry and politics in 30's have anything to tell us?
27/2 The next Bard: young, black and possibly from Dudley
26/2 Arts Council England cuts
26/2 Poet Laureate: Do we need one? and latest betting
25/2 Stephen Spender's Jewish roots
25/2 In praise of Gail Trimble
23/2 Ruth Padel: My other life
23/2 The power of poetry
23/2 Christopher Nolan obituary
19/2 Contribute to BBC Four documentary on Poetry Please.
19/2 Ruth Padel front runner for Oxford Professor
19/2 Eminent Danish poet Inger Christensen - obituary
17/ 2 Andrew Motion: children should be taught Bible's great stories. Verses that draw on the Bible
16/2 The Poetry Society included on IoS Hot List
16/2 CBeebies launches Poetry Pie
11/2 William Gibson dies
10/2 Joy of text on loving verse.
10/2 Return of the poetry pamphlet.
4/2 The relationship between Maths and Poetry.
2/2 Poetry: the perfect antidote to the Credit Crunch, including the Poetry Society and Poetry Review.
31/1 Faber launch £2500 apprenticeship for new poets, including former Foyles winner Annie Katchinska.
30/1 Wendy Cope on the Laureateship.
29/1 John Updike's poetry.
28/1 Costa Prize: Adam Foulds a breath away from winning.
25/1 Burns celebrations launch a year of homecoming.
Hardeep Singh Kohli on Burns. Tam O'Shanter.
22/1 Oxford University has launched the search for its next Professor of Poetry.
21/1 Moldovan poet Gringore Vieru, promoter of the Romanian Language, dies.
21/1 Elizabeth Alexander's poem for Obama's inauguration. Listen.
21/1 Derek Walcott's poem for Obama.
21/1 John Fairfax, founder of Arvon Foundation, dies.
16/1 The Academi commission Gillian Clarke to write a poem for Obama.
13/1 Fiona Sampson, Poetry Review Editor, on why Mick Imlah's death is the end of an era.
13/1 Jen Hadfield wins TS Eliot Prize
13/1 WD Snodgrass dies
13/1 10 poetry-related things to do in 2009 includes join the Poetry Society.
12/1 Ruth Padel's Desert Island Disc choices
9/1 Turkish poet Nazim Hikmet regains citizenship.
6/1 Adam Foulds wins the Costa Poetry Award with his debut work of poetry about the Mau Mau uprisings in Kenya, The Broken Word.
5/1 Former Poetry Society Chair Ruth Padel will be appearing on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs, 11 January.
5/1 Poet Elizabeth Alexander to read at Barack Obama inauguration on 20 January.
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