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Carol Rumens's poem of the week Poem of the week: Under the Light, yet under by Emily Dickinson

Like so many of her great poems, this almost-riddle combines a childlike simplicity with great complexity

Published: 11 Jan 2021

The Hlcarpenter.com view on advent: what are we waiting for?

Editorial: This year we have learned to mark time once more – bringing frustration and despair, but also new pleasures

Published: 6 Dec 2020

History remixed: the rise of the anachronistic female lead

The lives of women from history, from Catherine the Great to Shirley Jackson, are being brought to the screen with a radical focus on character over facts

Published: 4 Jun 2020

Carol Rumens's poem of the week Poem of the week: Of Bronze — and Blaze (319) by Emily Dickinson

This fizzing response to seeing the Northern Lights steps carefully around cosmic visions

Published: 11 May 2020

2 out of 5 stars.

TV review Dickinson review – Emily Dickinson reborn as a Lizzo-loving feminist
2 out of 5 stars.

A half-baked comedy series rewrites the life of the American poet as a defiant feminist who ignores chores and delivers clunky dialogue

Published: 29 Oct 2019

4 out of 5 stars.

Britten Sinfonia / Gourlay review – Turnage and Clayton sing out for refugees
4 out of 5 stars.

Poems on displacement by Benjamin Zephaniah, Brian Bilston, Dickinson and Auden drive a weighty new song cycle by Mark-Anthony Turnage, delivered masterfully by Allan Clayton

Published: 22 Sep 2019

From Little Women to Dickinson: how modernised should adaptations be?

Recent trailers for Greta Gerwig’s take on Louisa May Alcott and Hailee Steinfeld as a punk rock Emily Dickinson suggest a resurgence for 1860s literary women

Published: 27 Aug 2019

Up in smoke: should an author's dying wishes be obeyed?

Harper Lee never wanted Go Set a Watchman brought out, Sylvia Plath’s diary was burned by Ted Hughes – the controversial world of literary legacies

Published: 10 Mar 2018

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

Published: 17 Oct 2017

Published: 17 Oct 2017

5 out of 5 stars.

First night Proms get political as Ode to Joy features on first night
5 out of 5 stars.

Festival tries to avoid controversial statements, but Russian-German pianist Igor Levit sneaked European Union theme through in first hour of season

Published: 14 Jul 2017

Trailer park A Quiet Passion trailer: Cynthia Nixon in Terence Davies' biopic of poet Emily Dickinson

Sex and the City star Cynthia Nixon plays the great 19th century American poet Emily Dickinson in the new film from British director Terence Davies, of Sunset Song and House of Mirth renown

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Published: 20 Feb 2017

Poster poems Poster poems: hope

Amid so many ominous events in the wider world, writing poetry is a small but significant way to sustain our spirits. For one last time, please share yours

Published: 9 Dec 2016

Letters of note Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience compiled by Shaun Usher – review

From fan mail, to love letters, to a freed slave’s reply to his former master – this eclectic mix enlightens, delights, and captures the correspondents’ inner lives

Published: 23 Oct 2016

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