Interviews

Andrew Motion, Patti Smith, Roger Waters, Daniel Handler (Lemony Snicket), Annie Freud, Bill Nighy, Maria Bamford, Colm Tóibín, Joelle Taylor, Benjamin Zephaniah, Rupi Kaur, Stewart Lee, Cerys Matthews, Paul Muldoon, AE Stallings, Simon Amstell, Shane McCrae, John Darnielle (The Mountain Goats), Bill Bailey, Quentin Blake, Roger McGough, Tim Key, Ben Lerner, Russell Kane, Jon Klassen

Features

Will AI change culture forever? It already has.

Does anybody want to be the next poet laureate?

The UK government has spent £26m on a 65-foot wooden tower in the desert that writes poems. I had a few questions about this.

Weldon Kees: the mystery of the poet who vanished without a trace.

‘Margate is rather queer, and we don’t dislike it’: at the beach with TS Eliot.

Book reviews

Click any of the book covers to read Tristram’s review of the book.

End-of-year Telegraph poetry roundups

2024 (15 books including Gboyega Odubanjo’s Adam, Julian Orde’s Conjurors and Sylvia Legris’s The Principle of Rapid Peering)

2023 (16 books including Claudia Rankine’s Plot, Shane McCrae’s The Many Hundreds of the Scent and Amy Acre’s Mothersong)

2022 (20 books including Victoria Adukwei Bulley’s Quiet, John McCullough’s Panic Response, Victoria Chang’s Obit and PJ Harvey’s Orlam)

2021 (14 books including Isobel Williams’s Catullus: Shibari Carmina, Kayo Chingonyi’s A Blood Condition, Victoria Kennefick’s Eat Or We Both Starve and Alice Hiller’s Bird of Winter)

2020 (15 books, including Matthew Welton’s Squid Squad, Marvin Thompson’s Road Trip, Rachel Long’s My Darling from the Lions and Stephanie Burt’s After Callimachus)

2019 (15 books, including Stephen Sexton’s If All the World and Love Were Young, Inua Ellams’s The Half-God of Rainfall, Rebecca Tamás’s Witch and Geoffrey Hill’s The Book of Baruch by the Gnostic Justin)

2018 (13 books, including Rebecca Elson’s A Responsibility to Awe, Kaveh Akbar’s Calling a Wolf a Wolf, Zaffar Kunial’s Us and Marianne Burton’s Kierkegaard’s Cupboard)

2017 (16 books, including Richard Osmond’s Useful Verses, Hera Lindsay Bird’s Hera Lindsay Bird, Will Harris’s All This Is Implied and Chrissy Williams’s Bear)

Reviews of the TS Eliot Prize shortlist: 2025, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017