Poetry, dead? The 2023 TS Eliot Prize shortlist proves it’s alive and kicking
Like 'The Waste Land', the 10 books up for Britain's richest poetry prize don't restrict themselves to a single language
Like 'The Waste Land', the 10 books up for Britain's richest poetry prize don't restrict themselves to a single language
A delightful debut hour of musical comedy and confessional stand-up, hingeing largely on Wilson's own experiences of a certain talent show
How the Pulitzer-winner gave up 'trying to be good' – and became the queen of confessional poetry
Kingsman’s One Woman Show is a magnificent satire on a certain kind of comic heroine, with jokes that run the full stylistic gamut
This year's best poetry collections were filled with wild fantasies – from Greek myths and robot birds to a book narrated by an eyeball
For our third annual contest, the theme is ‘animals’. You have until December 16 to enter – and if you win, a leading actor will read it
Sadowitz brought his ‘screaming racist shtick’ to his biggest audience yet, but his cartoonish provocations are never really shocking
Radio 3 broadcast a brilliant drama about Winston Churchill’s bitter battle with the BBC in 1926, plus a necessary show for opera novices
Faber poetry editor Matthew Hollis's 'biography of a poem' captures the whirl of literary life in the 1920s – despite some strange omissions
Ukrainian comedian Anton Tymoshenko revealed on Radio 4 how dark humour can represent a healthy response to suffering
The comedian is widely adored, but this set at Guildford's ill-suited G Live venue was seldom the stuff of belly laughs
The Discworld author was Britain's most popular novelist, selling 100 million books. A new biography sheds light on the man behind the magic
The star of acclaimed TV show 'Hacks' delivers a deliciously low-key collection of deadpan confessions and surreal musings at Soho Theatre
The famously aloof stand-up is thrilled to be back on stage, and, if his last show was a fraction sharper, this new one is a treat even so
The dipsomaniac comedian’s shtick is still outrageous – but he’s better when he shows heart as well as a desire to offend
Show offers a string of gently amusing behind-the-curtain anecdotes from French's stage and screen career