Literary

Friday poem: 'The Darkling Thrush' by Thomas Hardy

Meet the eyelash-less people in today's Friday poem

Jane Smiley on writing one hundred years of a family's story

Friday poem for coffee lovers: 'Espresso'

The Museum of Civilisation & apocalypse fiction

Poetry aloud: Kae Tempest's 'The woman the boy became'

'School' by Kae Tempest

Friday poem: it started with a conversation...

Which great party from literature were you destined to attend?

Friday poem: Don Paterson on Michael Donaghy

Designing the Picador poetry covers: like veins in the body

The best personal ads ever. EVER.