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Elizabeth Bishop

July 2022

  • Robert Lowell, 1967.

    Memoirs by Robert Lowell review – a poet’s life

    A vivid account of childhood, depression and the postwar American literary scene, from the author of Life Studies

December 2019

  • Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Hardwick in the 1950s.

    Observer book of the week
    The Dolphin Letters, 1970-1979: Elizabeth Hardwick, Robert Lowell, and Their Circle, edited by Saskia Hamilton – review

    This collection of correspondence between the critic and the poet as their marriage fell apart provides a riveting study of ethics and betrayal

January 2019

  • Jade Anouka and Jonjo O’Neil are among a revolving cast that appears in Dear Elizabeth.

    Dear Elizabeth review – poets bare their souls in a lyrical show

    Jade Anouka and Jonjo O’Neill give first-rate performances reading the letters between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell

August 2018

  • Reluctant Fundamentalist

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books about Americans abroad

    Writers from Joan Didion to James Baldwin complicate the traditionally white and male tales of wide-eyed innocents at large

October 2017

  • Scottish novelist and screenwriter William Boyd seen before speaking at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland. UK 28/08/2009 COPYRIGHT PHOTO BY MURDO MACLEOD All Rights Reserved Tel + 44 131 669 9659 Mobile +44 7831 504 531 Email: m@murdophoto.com STANDARD TERMS AND CONDITIONS APPLY (press button below or see details at http://www.murdophoto.com/T%26Cs.html No syndication, no redistribution, Murdo Macleods repro fees apply. Scottish novelist and screenwriter; William; Boyd; literature;

    Books that made me
    William Boyd: ‘The most over-rated book? F Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender Is the Night’

    The novelist amd screenwriter on Graham Greene and the influence of Elizabeth Bishop

March 2017

  • Robert Lowell, in London in 1967.

    Books blog
    Robert Lowell at 100: why his poetry has never been more relevant

    Lowell’s confessional work of the 1960s marked a sea change in American letters – then he fell out of favour. But on the eve of his centenary, his work offers an urgent political message in a time of Trump

October 2016

  • A bus in Birmingham on 27 December 1959

    Poster poems
    Poster poems: bus journeys

    A communal space offering an ever-changing view of life passing by, buses have opened windows on to the world for many poets. Share your bus verses here

May 2016

  • A small boat plies the Yangtze river in the Wu Xia Gorge.

    Carol Rumens's poem of the week
    Poem of the week: Yangtze by Sarah Howe

    An elliptical account of a journey down the Chinese river subtly registers the impact of massive environmental damage

February 2016

  • Emily Dickinson

    Book of the day
    The sequel to Poems That Make Grown Men Cry: women, look upon these works and weep…

    Anthony Holden on the ‘female’ sequel to Poems That Make Grown Men Cry – the surprise bestselling anthology he put together with his son Ben

July 2015

  • Greta Gerwig

    On my radar
    On my radar: actor Greta Gerwig’s cultural highlights

    The mumblecore star on Colm Tóibín’s writing about poetry, the surprising allure of Peaky Blinders and the restoration of Satyajit Ray’s cinema classics

April 2015

  • Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop

    A tale of two poets, Thom Gunn and Elizabeth Bishop

    After a rocky first meeting, the two became friends. Colm Toíbín traces the similarities in their outlook and describes how, by virtue of their poems, they both moved from self-effacement into the light

June 2014

  • Marguerite Duras

    'Every hour a glass of wine' – the female writers who drank

  • W.H.Auden

    The 10 best ...
    The 10 best recordings of poets

    Gallery10

April 2014

  • Reaching for the Moon

    Reaching for the Moon review – messy but respectful biopic of artists' relationships

    Poet Elizabeth Bishop and landscape architect Lota de Macedo Soares's messy lives and loves are paid watchable tribute, writes Leslie Felperin

March 2014

  • A lamb frolicking in the spring sunshine

    The 10 best ...
    The 10 best poems about spring

    From Shakespeare to Larkin, Kate Kellaway chooses her favourite celebrations of spring

    Gallery10

September 2013

  • David Jacobs made an impression with his courtesy and unforced charm

    Letter: David Jacobs and Elizabeth Bishop's art of losing

    Paul Bailey writes: I was lastingly impressed by the courtesy and unforced charm of David Jacobs

February 2013

  • Poets Imtiaz Dharker, Arun Kolatkar, Louis MacNeice and Elizabeth Bishop

    The Guardian Books podcast
    Guardian Books poetry podcast: Imtiaz Dharker reads Elizabeth Bishop, Louis MacNeice and Arun Kolatkar

    Imtiaz Dharker launches our second week of poets choosing their favourite poems with a dazzling trio: One Art by Elizabeth Bishop, Meeting Point by Louis MacNeice and Yeshwant Rao by Arun Kolatkar

    Podcast15:49

February 2012

  • 10 of the best
    John Mullan's 10 of the best

    Bouts of insomnia, from Chaucer to Stephen King

November 2011

  • Nova Scotia Landscape, a painting by Elizabeth Bishop

    Elizabeth Bishop: Exchanging Hats – in pictures

    Best known as a poet, Elizabeth Bishop was also a prolific painter. As a new book of her art is published, curator William Benton introduces some of his favourites

    Gallery10

September 2011

  • Salisbury Cathedral

    Rereading
    William Golding's The Spire

    William Golding's 1964 novel about the building of a spire is a study of bringing the near-impossible into being. His writing is no less miraculous, argues Craig Raine
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