TS Eliot Prize winner Jason Allen-Paisant: ‘My Jamaican grandmother would sing me Rule, Britannia’
Having won both the UK's top poetry prizes for his Self-Portrait as Othello, Allen-Paisant says Shakespeare's Moor is still relevant today
Having won both the UK's top poetry prizes for his Self-Portrait as Othello, Allen-Paisant says Shakespeare's Moor is still relevant today
The old-fogeyish comedian's compelling new stand-up show, On I Bang, unspools his health ordeal with an understated delivery that hits hard
How German photographer Grete Stern exposed the fantasies of modern women to produce a landmark of surrealist art
Karen McCarthy Woolf imagines what went on in the plastic heads of a 104-year-old heiress’s toys in Top Doll, a weird and wild verse novel
Our theatre and comedy critics round up the best and worst shows of 2023 – and look ahead to an uncertain future
Who said comics have to be comic? This year’s crop gave us haunted spas, apocalyptic visions – and the beauty of pastoral France
The theme of this year’s contest is ‘Art’ – here are a few tips on how to get started
The dub-poet turned down an OBE – and became a national treasure. Yet he never lost his sense of poetry’s radical, political possibilities
In the 16 best poetry books of the year, readers meet Shakespeare's wife and Chekhov's sisters, a French comte and a wild London hyena
Released to mark Doctor Who's 60th anniversary, this colourised feature-length version of the Daleks' early years is pleasingly kitsch
The Telegraph's Poetry Book of the Month choices transport readers from the Trojan War to post-apocalyptic Scotland
The Welsh comic’s joke about Rishi Sunak landed her in hot water – as she recounts in a debut full of charm, originality and promise
Mary Beard's Radio 4 series offers an unconventional portrait of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius by diving into his Adrian Mole-ish letters
The comic and Evil Genius host on his 'knuckle-dragging' father, Churchill's dark side, and why he can no longer look at a Picasso
Celebrations for the First Folio's anniversary have been brilliant – but occasional tributes to other British playwrights wouldn't go amiss
The first half of this new show offers a more-or-less satisfying portion of McIntyre-ish nuggets – but the second sees him on vintage form