Poetry roundup

The Sunday Times reviews by Sean O'Brien

Song & Dance by John Fuller

The Sunday Times review by Alan Brownjohn: a star performer in verse

Selected Poems by Eilean Ni Chuilleanain and Sea Level by Angela Leighton

40 years of the Arvon Foundation

An extraordinary range of contemporary British writers have experienced the "indescribable, strange, intense euphoria of an Arvon course"

The Annotated Collected Poems of Edward Thomas

Poetry roundup

The Sunday Times reviews by Alan Brownjohn: poems full of boisterous energy and sly humour

Why, Lord Byron – you’re a sly dog

New evidence suggests the clippings of hair that the romantic poet sent to his admirers were actually taken from his pet dog

Verse from three perspectives

Bloodshot Monochrome by Patience Agbabi, The Lost Leader by Mick Imlah and Sea Change by Jorie Graham

The do's and don'ts of poetry

Frieda Hughes dispenses advice on rhyme, rhythm and meaning

Chinese may put money on ancient poet

Scholars and lawyers are demanding that Chinese heroes and literary giants should be added to banknotes

Frieda Hughes enjoys the intimacy of watching poets on film

An angaging new poetry anthology includes DVDs of them reading their own work.

Classics - Old English Poems and Riddles and The First Poems in English

The Times review by Margaret Reynolds

The Yellow Mountain poetry festival unites Chinese poets with the English language

Alexander Monro on the Chinese-British Poetry festival

Dealing with a name-dropper

Gillian Ferguson finds the poetry in DNA

An Edinburgh poet has taken the human genome as her muse