What is it about the particularities of painting that has allowed artists to explore, in a variety of ways and with a sometimes surprising degree of freedom, the vexed relations between the mundane and the celestial? In his latest book Heaven on ...

Terrance Hayes has described the ‘American sonnet’ as ‘part prison / Part panic closet’; in the 70 sonnets of American Sonnets for my Past and Future Assassin (Penguin), which he began writing the morning after the 2016 election, he ...

Fiona Benson’s Vertigo and Ghost (Jonathan Cape), the follow-up to her award-winning 2014 debut Bright Travellers, is one of the most hotly-anticipated poetry collections of 2019. Its harrowing central sequence is a retelling of Greek myth, ...