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Poetweet: Now you can turn your tweets into a poem (just don't expect...

A new website lets you convert your Twitter history into hilarious and often nonsensical poetry. Claire Cohen tests it out, using the Twitter handles of some of our favourite women...

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Rod McKuen, poet and songwriter, dies

The Grammy-winning songwriter of Seasons in the Sun has died aged 81

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Travelling Tinker Man and Other Rhymes by David Essex, review: 'not superior...

David Essex's poetic musings on life are a peculiarly British affair, with emotion and honesty masked by cheesy rhymes

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England's most influential poet (you've never heard of)

George Mpanga - aka George the Poet - grew up on an estate in north London before reading politics at Cambridge and is now being hailed as one of poetry's brightest young stars. He tells Theo Merz...

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Poems by Iain Banks and Ken MacLeod, review: 'blazing energy'

Charlotte Runcie on the messy, furious early poems of the deceased sci-fi novelist Iain Banks

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Kim Kardashian's Marriage by Sam Riviere, review: 'great wit'

Iona McLaren admires a collection of poems inspired by the reality star

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Viewfinder: 60 inspiring photographs

Beautiful, unexpected images from around the world

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Stevie, Hampstead Theatre, review: 'treads water'

A pulse-quickening performance by Zoe Wanamaker cannot save this play about the poet Stevie Smith, says Dominic Cavendish

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Summer Requiem by Vikram Seth, review: 'serene'

Vikram Seth's new collection of poems is quietly affecting, says James Walton

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The best books of 2014

Novels, memoirs and histories: if you're looking for a new book to read, this is a good place to start

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The best history and war books of 2014

The Telegraph selects the year's must-read history books

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Best novels and fiction books of 2014

The must-read novels and short story collections of the year

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100 novels everyone should read

The best novels of all time, from the Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy to George Eliot's classic Middlemarch

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The most spectacular libraries in the world

From Rococo fantasies to nests of twigs and steel, here are some truly beautiful places to store books

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What if Shakespeare was as horny as Craig Raine?

The 70-year-old poet was mocked on Twitter for lecherous lines about younger women. But these extracts, collected by Michael Deacon, show no writer is immune

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Philip Larkin: The Sunday Sessions - Philip Larkin Reading His Poetry

Philip Larkin reads his own poetry on The Sunday Sessions - and it's wonderful to hear the sound of a superpoet

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Alan Bennett on the poems that inspire him

Alan Bennett chooses works by poets from Thomas Hardy to Philip Larkin

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Hidden meaning behind poem will brighten your day

A teenager's seemingly sombre poem has gone viral after its hidden uplifting message was revealed

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Quiz: how much of a poetry buff are you?

In celebration of national poetry day, test your poetry knowledge

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge gets folk music tribute

Singer Ange Hardy honours the romantic poet who wrote The Ancient Mariner and was born on October 21 1772

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