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At the Venice Biennale I saw anger at Russia and Israel – and its leadership pretending everything was fine

The festival can often make you queasy, as geopolitics are played out through the proxy of art. This year it feels on the verge of collapsing in on itself, says Charlotte Higgins, the Guardian’s chief culture writer

The Guardian - UK

Kiefer/Van Gogh review – Anselm puts the nightmare into Vincent’s sunflower visions

The Dutch artist looks like a prophet of the Holocaust when viewed through the 80-year-old German painter’s dark lens in this startling show, which makes you see how Van Gogh might have painted modern horrors

The Guardian - UK

Poem of the week: Gravel by Maurice Riordan

There’s a wry smile underlying Riordan’s examination of the greatness and smallness of a heap of gravel

The Guardian - UK

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The best recent poetry – review roundup

Swell by Maria Ferguson; There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die by Tove Ditlevsen; Mind’s Eye by Carol Rumens; Strange Beach by Oluwaseun Olayiwola; Foxglovewise by Ange Mlinko

The Guardian - UK

Paul Gordon obituary

Other lives: Psychotherapist, author and campaigner determined to improve people’s lives

The Guardian - UK

Spontaneous Acts by Yoko Tawada: an adroit poetic novel about connection post-pandemic

Spontaneous Acts by German-Japanese writer Yoko Tawada follows a fierce and scrupulous search for connection and meaning in a noisy and overwhelming world emerging from the loneliness of COVID lockdowns.

The Conversation

Poem of the week: Sudanese Saying by Pierre Joris

Short, stinging lines convey the pain and injustice of the 2016 demolition of the Calais refugee ‘jungle’

The Guardian - UK

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The Swimmer, Russian thugs, Jesus’ feet: Anne Carson’s lyrical, surreal new work strategically pricks literary seriousness

Wrong Norma, the latest collection of writings (and drawings and facsimiles) by the feted Canadian poet Anne Carson, is a work full of allusions, quotations, references, parody and other forms of stylised evocation.

The Conversation

‘Our house was bombed the night I was born’: Anselm Kiefer on the nightmares he can’t escape

The great German artist has tried again and again to read James Joyce’s twisted novel Finnegans Wake. His latest show takes inspiration from that book – and from a childhood making toys from the rubble of his family home

The Guardian - UK

Sir Harrison Birtwistle obituary

Composer renowned as a great modernist whose music is imbued with stubborn power and a sense of unreachable mystery

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