Nick Cave: ‘Being forced to grieve openly basically saved us’

In a rare interview since the death of his 15-year-old son, the singer reveals his struggle to write and reconnect with the world after the tragedy

Stevie Smith: like all great poets, she invites contradictions

The editor of The Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith says she teaches us to listen to the ordinary, but to hear in it something extraordinarily unexpected

Few are untouched by the ‘mancession’

Men Overboard: You don’t have to be unemployed to have been hit by the crisis of recent years – many with jobs still feel like failures. But there are ways to make life better

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