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25 of the best poetry books to read in 2025

Delve into the hypnotic world of lyrical literature

Evening Standard

Poem of the week: Holidaying with Dad During the Divorce by Jessica Traynor

A teenager struggles to absorb her parents’ emotional disarray as their marriage falls apart

The Guardian - UK

Is there an upside to insomnia?

Insomnia fueled some of the greatest art women have ever produced, but the darkness can also come with a price

Salon

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Best short novels for a classic quick read in 2024

Ingenious storytelling in 300 pages or less

Evening Standard

21 of the Greatest American novels that everyone should read

From historical classics to postmodern marvels

Evening Standard

David Compton obituary

Science fiction writer whose novel foreseeing reality TV was adapted as Bertrand Tavernier’s film Death Watch

The Guardian - UK

“We wrote a postscript which gives the listener the chance to choose their own end to the story… continue the cycle or give the character up to the sea”: iamthemorning’s path to Lighthouse

Chamber music duo’s Marjana Semkina on the poetry and suicide spots that inspired their third album

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Christina Britzolakis obituary

Other lives: English lecturer at Warwick University who wrote a book analysing the writing of Sylvia Plath

The Guardian - UK

Dolly Alderton: ‘In an emergency, I turn to Bridget Jones’

The journalist and author on meeting Nick Hornby, siding with Sylvia Plath, and finding comfort in cookery books

The Guardian - UK

Goth connections that led to the Cure

From Sylvia Plath to Joy Division, the Cure co-founder examines the roots and impact of the oft-maligned subculture

Salon

Ted Hughes, 25 years on: Now, more than ever, the poet is the voice for our times

The poet laureate, who died a quarter of a century ago today, believed his Shakespeare fixation was almost fatal; his first wife, Sylvia Plath, was certainly the Titania to his Oberon. With his almost psychic connection to nature and a charisma so powerful that even the Queen was rumoured to…

The Independent UK

I feel it in my fingers: Why more of us should start eating with our hands

Most of us in the West eat things like burgers or pastries with our hands, but around the world it’s far more common to eat ‘messy’ or ‘sticky’ items without a knife and fork, too. It could transform the way we enjoy food, writes Kate Ng

The Independent UK

But The Girl by Jessica Zhan Mei Yu review – an impressive debut

This observant novel follows a young Malaysian Australian writer as she unpicks her preconceptions of an artist’s life, postcolonialism and Sylvia Plath

The Guardian - AU

Five Great Reads: conspiracy theorists, Russians in Tbilisi and loving Sylvia Plath

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Imogen Dewey

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'I had a sadomasochistic fascination with English': a vivid, playful debut disrupts clichés of docile Asian womanhood

Many contemporary novels adamantly refuse readers a pleasurable reading experience – with clunky prose and a cloying earnestness. But life’s too short for boring books.

Inverse

How Depression Affects People Even at the Linguistic Level

From the way you move and sleep, to how you interact with people around you, depression changes just about everything.

The Guardian - UK

‘Definitely a lot busier’: TV show lures visitors to coin gang’s Yorkshire home

Associations with 18-century counterfeiters can be seen across Calderdale, where The Gallows Pole tourism has mainly been welcomed

The Walrus

Does Journalling Actually Improve Mental Health?

Writing down your thoughts can be helpful. But getting the perfect notebook isn’t a substitute for professional care

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The Hindu

Play on poet Sylvia Plath trains the spotlight on clinical depression

Sylvia, a play scripted and directed by Athira Nikathil, is an intimate portrayal of the life of American poet Sylvia Plath and her struggle with depression

The Guardian - UK

A Life of One’s Own by Joanna Biggs review – on the shoulders of giants

The lives of female authors provide inspiration for a woman who finds herself starting over after divorce

Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago outdoors: Grape-eating robin, double-bearded turkey, mushrooms, Sylvia Plath

A grape-eating robin in Chicago, a double-bearded tom turkey spotted, and Sylvia Plath’s “Mushrooms” are among the notes from around Chicago outdoors and beyond.

The Independent UK

‘It’s really strange to be reminded of your perpetually dead parents’: Frieda Hughes on her famous literary family and her magpie memoir George

The first memoir from Frieda Hughes tells the story of George, the magpie she adopted. The poet, painter and daughter of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes tells Jessie Thompson of her plans to keep writing about her life

The Guardian - UK

Menage a quatre: why most poetic biopics are romantic fiction

Director William Nunez describes why he focused on a time when the poet Robert Graves – best known for a memoir Goodbye to All That and historical novel I, Claudius – left his wife and family in pursuit of creativity at any cost

The Independent UK

Max Porter: ‘Empower yourself to think carefully about men and masculinity’

As he releases his fourth novel, ‘Shy’, Max Porter talks to Patrick Sproull about the end of his ‘boyhood’ trilogy, sensitivity readers, and still reading Philip Roth and Ted Hughes

The Conversation

Girl, Interrupted interrogates how women are 'mad' when they refuse to conform – 30 years on, this memoir is still important

Thirty years ago, American writer Susanna Kaysen published her memoir Girl, Interrupted. It tells the story of her two years inside McLean Hospital in Boston as a psychiatric patient.

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