MYSTERIOUS: 5 | Mind Blowing Facts

From Dreamland to The Waste Land

Brief letters: TS Eliot in Margate | Rishi Sunak’s school donation | Judi Dench in The Archers | Brexit benefits | Names for Grandma | Herd immunity by stealth

The Guardian - UK · Apr 6, 2022

12 destinations marking the arrival of modernist Britain

In the centennial year of modernism, we visit visionary places where artists, engineers and architects imagined the future

The Guardian - UK · Apr 6, 2022

‘It takes your hand off the panic button’: TS Eliot’s The Waste Land 100 years on

TS Eliot’s modernist masterpiece has baffled and moved readers for a century. Now the poem has inspired a whole festival. Fans including Jeanette Winterson pin down its elusive, allusive power

The Guardian - UK · Apr 6, 2022

C+nto & Othered Poems by Joelle Taylor review – punchy tales of lesbian life

The winner of the TS Eliot prize offers a rallying cry for gay unity amid prejudice and death

The Guardian - UK · Feb 14, 2022

‘They are literally murdering us’: poet Joelle Taylor on bringing the LGBTQ+ community together

She’s been marginalised and slapped in the street – but Taylor’s passionate and nostalgic poems about butch lesbian subculture just won the TS Eliot prize. Can they also heal the divisions over gender identity?

The Guardian - UK · Jan 17, 2022