In defence of the libretto and the librettist

Two recent poetry collections

PROUST’S FAMOUS NOVEL IS CALLED IN SEARCH of Lost Time, and isn’t that the key to why we love history? It’s the urge to recover the lost past. Can we get beyond the mysterious veil to real events and

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

How the young Dylan Thomas repeatedly stole from others

A quest for a lost board game – and a philosophical inquiry