NOT SINCE VS Naipaul’s official biography, The World Is What It Is, has the genre of memoir been gifted a book like Ira Mathur’s Love the Dark Days, a work so candid the reader wonders whether it is perhaps too candid. From cover to cover, and at all points in between, the reader of Love
Humour, beauty, solace . the right poem can bring a ray of sunshine. Andrew Motion, Kayo Chingonyi, Tishani Doshi and other poets recommend the verses that lift their spirits
The Edwin Morgan Poetry Award, a cornerstone for discovering and supporting emerging poetry talent, will be announced at this year's Edinburgh International Book Festival.