Brighton Journal, 2017: 'Short Documentary About Punk Poet Attila The Stockbroker'

About Poets: ATTILA THE STOCKBROKER

The Guardian, 14 June 2020: "The British Nigerian designer on thinking big, bright and positive." Photo: Phil Fisk.

About Artists: YINKA ILORI

Clasics in Ñspel: LOOK, STRANGER, by W.H. Auden

Clasics in Ñspel: LOOK, STRANGER, by W.H. Auden

Tate, 6 December 2016: "'Finding Fanon' with Larry Achiampong and David Blandy." Photo: Claire Barrett.

About Artists: LARRY ACHIAMPONG

The Guardian, 12 October 2019: Review of "Time Lived, Without Its Flow." Photograph: Sophie Davidson.

About Poets: DENISE RILEY

The Guardian, 8 December 2009: "In a few weeks, his Turner prize-winning golden fresco will be painted over. Richard Wright reveals why that's OK by him." Photo: David Levene.

About Artists: RICHARD WRIGHT

‘Matt Hancock told the BBC’s Andrew Marr that he doesn’t even care that he broke the law over Covid contracts.’ Photograph: Tayfun Salcı/Zuma Wire/Rex/Shutterstock

Fṛm Đ Gardịn │ The Covid contracts furore is no surprise – Britain has long been a chumocracy

The Guardian, 10 March 2016: "Is Willard Wigan the steadiest hand in art? From Michelangelo to Usain Bolt and scenes from Frozen, his tiny sculptures celebrate pop culture in miniature." Photograph: Guy Bell/Rex/Shutterstock.

About Artists: WILLARD WIGAN

A pedestrian walks past a wall mural depicting a mother saving children from a sea of coronavirus, in Mumbai, India. Photograph: Indranil Mukherjee/AFP/Getty Images

Fṛm Đ Gardịn │ The world faces a pandemic of human rights abuses in the wake of Covid-19

Guardian, 2015: "Adrian Henri and the painter-poets who turned the Mersey Beat into an art." Photo: ICA.

About Artist-Poets: ADRIAN HENRI

The Telegraph, 11 January 2014, Phot: Andrew Crowley.

About Poets: HELEN MORT

Irish Times, April 2020: "My father died the day I signed the contract for my book 'Tongues of Fire'." Photo: Bríd O’Donovan.

About Poets: SEÁN HEWITT

The Guardian, interview, May 2017: 'I was dehumanised': Lemn Sissay on hearing his harrowing abuse report live on stage. Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi

About Poets: LEMN SISSAY

Donald Trump and Joe Biden. Photograph: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images

Fṛm Đ Gardịn │ As events in the US have shown, two-party politics is no longer fit for purpose

From Portuguese: Military Efficiency (A little Chinese story), by Lima Barreto

From Portuguese: Military Efficiency (A little Chinese story), by Lima Barreto

From Portuguese: THE ROAD TO DAMASCUS, by Machado de Assis

From Portuguese: THE ROAD TO DAMASCUS, by Machado de Assis

A 2009 photograph of Ska band the Specials, (from left) Lynval Golding, Terry Hall and John Bradbury. “We were doing something that wasn’t in London. It was a sense of pride in where we were.’ Photograph: Martin Godwin/The Guardian

In Ñspel │ The Guardian view on two-tone nostalgia: the pride of Coventry

Tate: Turner Prize, 2005. Photo: Adrian Barry

About Artists: JIM LAMBIE

Head bowed, Boris Johnson leads a virtual press conference on the Covid-19 pandemic on Tuesday 26 January. Photograph: Justin Tallis/AP

Fṛm Đ Gardịn │ A year after Johnson’s swaggering Greenwich speech, 100,000 dead

The Guardian, 27 January: 'An insult': fury at claim ministers did all they could in Covid crisis.

A clerihew: Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, Prime Minister

BBC, 20 January 2021: "Amanda Gorman: Inauguration poet calls for 'unity and togetherness'."

Clasics in Ñspel: THE HILL WE CLIMB, by Amanda Gorman

Statue of Patrick Kavanagh by the Grand Canal in Dublin.

Clasics in Ñspel: “Lines Written on a Seat on the Grand Canal, Dublin,” by Patrick Kavanagh

The Guardian, 18 January 2015: ‘My teachers were bullying ignoramuses.’ Photograph: Eamonn McCabe.

About Poets: DAVID HARSENT

The Observer, 16 April 2017: "Chris Ofili: ‘Being in Trinidad is still really exciting… I think it is working for me'." Photograph: Kibwe Braithwaite.

About Artists: CHRIS OFILI

Statue of Patrick Kavanagh by the Grand Canal in Dublin.

Clasics in Ñspel: EPIC, by Patrick Kavanagh

Statue of Patrick Kavanagh by the Grand Canal in Dublin.

Clasics in Ñspel: KERR’S ASS, by Patrick Kavanagh

Elephant, 2 August 2017: Studio visit. Photo: Tim Smyth.

About Artists: RANA BEGUM

Poetry Foundation: Profile / Poems / Related content.

About Poets: W H AUDEN

The Observer, 18 October 2020, interview: "Turner prize winner reveals how drawing gave her comfort in lockdown." Photograph: Ian Forsyth/Getty.

About Artists: RACHEL WHITEREAD

Clasics in Ñspel: NIGHT MAIL, by W.H. Auden

Clasics in Ñspel: NIGHT MAIL, by W.H. Auden

Bloodaxe Blogs, 2012: "Tessimond has joined the ranks of the lesser-known poets. A poet who certainly deserves our attention – who in his own lifetime was hugely popular – but who now is perhaps only known to a few. I want to briefly explore how that might have come about."

About Poets: ASJ TESSIMOND

The Observer, September 2016: "The artist reveals the best way to see London’s architecture, his love of Pina Bausch and some in-depth reading on African culture." Photograph: John Phillips/Getty Images.

About Artists: YINKA SHONIBARE CBE

The Guardian, 4 March 2016: "Sculptor expresses astonishment after being selected as artist for British Pavilion at renowned international art exhibition." Photograph: David Levene.

About Artists: PHYLLIDA BARLOW

Edward Thomas

Clasics in Ñspel: ASPENS, by Edward Thomas

Guardian, 11 January 2018: Douglas Dunn: "It’s a condition of verse / That it should make life worse." Photograph: Eamonn McCabe.

About Poets: DOUGLAS DUNN

Herald Scotland, October 2014: "Artist David Mach tells of wife's brave battle."

About Artists: DAVID MACH

President Donald Trump is seen on a screen speaking to supporters during a rally to contest the certification of the 2020 US presidential election results in Washington on 6 January. Photograph: Shannon Stapleton/Reuters

In Ñspel │ The Observer view on Donald Trump’s assault on US democracy

The Guardian, 25 May 2016: "Cornelia Parker, sculptor and installation artist is curating a group at the Foundling museum in London on 'found' objects." Photograph: David Levene.

About Artists: CORNELIA PARKER

Clasics in Ñspel: THE BALLAD OF THE HARP-WEAVER, by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Clasics in Ñspel: THE BALLAD OF THE HARP-WEAVER, by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Clasics in Ñspel: “What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why”, by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Clasics in Ñspel: “What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why”, by Edna St. Vincent Millay

A Trump flag flies over the grounds of the US Capitol after a mob stormed the building on Wednesday, breaking windows and clashing with police officers. Photograph: John Moore/Getty Images

In Ñspel │ The Guardian view on the storming of the US Capitol: democracy in danger

Guardian, 18 April 2016; "Carol Ann Duffy to mark phasing out of gas meters with new poem." Photograph: Mikael Buck/Rex/Shutterstock.

About Poets: CAROL ANN DUFFY

Gavin Williamson. ‘Resources and goodwill have been squandered with a thoroughness that would make more sense as deliberate villainy.’ Photograph: Justin Tallis/AFP/Getty Images

Fṛm Đ Gardịn │ If Boris Johnson cared about schools, he’d already have sacked Gavin Williamson

The Guardian, July 2013: "Laura Knight: Portraits – in pictures."

About Artists: LAURA KNIGHT

‘In Downing Street there is a persistent refusal to confront and act on the worst-case scenario before the worst has actually happened.’ Photograph: WPA/Getty Images

In Ñspel │ The Guardian view on Boris Johnson: forever behind the Covid curve

Artist Juliana Notari installed the artwork, entitled Diva, in rural art park in Pernambuco, Brazil. Photograph: Juliana Notari

Fṛm Đ Gardịn │ The vagina dialogues: 33-metre artwork draws far right’s ire in Brazil

The National, 29 June 2015. "Makar Liz Lochhead says analytical approach is ‘spoiling’ how pupils learn to love poetry."

About Poets: LIZ LOCHHEAD

‘A classic demagogue, Mr Trump is signalling to his supporters that they, like him, should refuse to respect the election’s outcome and reject Mr Biden’s presidency.’ Photograph: Patrick Semansky/AP

In Ñspel: The Guardian view on Trump’s strategy: overturn result, cheat democracy

BBC: Alison Watt, "Generation," 18 July 2014

About Artists: ALISON WATT

Clasics in Ñspel: FIRST MEETING, by ASJ Tessimond

Clasics in Ñspel: FIRST MEETING, by ASJ Tessimond

Site stats for 2020 - A Śort Spel

Site stats for 2020 – A Śort Spel

‘This is a country divided over Europe. We were divided in the past and we will be divided in the future. Getting Brexit done is a fantasy.’ Photograph: Tolga Akmen/AFP/Getty Images

In Ñspel: The Guardian view of Brexit: a tragic national error