Was Larkin right to blame parents?

Writers attending The Times Cheltenham Literature Festival give their responses to the poet's cynical view of parenting

A poem learnt by heart is a friend for life

Daisy Goodwin, announcing her new recital competition, explains why children should stock their minds with verse

The antidote to universal troubles

Queen’s maestros laud last hero of great war

The Queen's personal poet and composer will collaborate to salute war hero and warn of climate change

Competition to revive dying art of poetry recital by children

The tradition of children reciting poetry by heart is to be revived with a national competition

Lorca's family agrees to unearth war secrets

Mystery surrounding death of Spain's most celebrated poet could finally be resolved

Hidden Betjeman

When he read his Poems in the Porch series on the radio in the 1950s, John Betjeman pretended he had 'found' them on a church noticeboard

It moved me: Aince Upon a Day by Wiliam Soutar

The writer recalls a favourite childhood poem

Poetry roundup

The Sunday Times reviews by Sean O'Brien

Song & Dance by John Fuller

The Sunday Times review by Alan Brownjohn: a star performer in verse

Selected Poems by Eilean Ni Chuilleanain and Sea Level by Angela Leighton

40 years of the Arvon Foundation

An extraordinary range of contemporary British writers have experienced the "indescribable, strange, intense euphoria of an Arvon course"

The Annotated Collected Poems of Edward Thomas

Poetry roundup

The Sunday Times reviews by Alan Brownjohn: poems full of boisterous energy and sly humour

Why, Lord Byron – you’re a sly dog

New evidence suggests the clippings of hair that the romantic poet sent to his admirers were actually taken from his pet dog