Two recent poetry collections

The unconventional instrumentation favoured by Tortoise is an indicator of how many different lineups have always jostled for space under the jazz umbrella. The national treasure that is The Pete Alle

LESTER COHEN / GETTY Lazarus: The Second Coming ...

A critic with ‘an almost devout passion for good poems’

Leigh Lawson has embraced acting and poetry with the same determination that sustained Marie Lloyd, the music-hall queen whose memorabilia he collects, as Carla Passino discovers

In defence of the libretto and the librettist