Raising the originality stakes

Pulse Cynan Jones (Granta, £14.99) Saints Tim MacGabhann ...

Four views of modern maternity

SARAH DITUM

Iris Murdoch’s unseen poetry, transcribed for the first time

Spooky tales that resurrect the mythological past

ONE OF THE MOST GRIMLY FUNNY POEMS OF the past century is Philip Larkin’s “This Be the Verse,” with its opening salvo about how our parents invariably mess us up. Larkin used a saltier word for “mess,