Independent, 29 October 2015: "Karen Wright meets the arist at her studio on a Dutch barge moored in the Thames near Hampton Court." Photograph: David Sandison.

About Artists: KATE MccGWIRE

Paris Review, 1995; interview by Drue Heinz

About Poets: TED HUGHES

Banksy's website: Outside / Inside / Q&A / Shows / Hotel

About Artists: BANKSY

‘We were supposed to believe that a culture of impunity and disregard for rules at the heart of government had absolutely nothing to do with Boris Johnson.’ Photograph: Paul Childs/Reuters

In Ñspel: The Observer view on Boris Johnson hurting the country and shaming his party

The Guardian, 11 April 2017: "Sylvia Plath, a voice that can’t be silenced." Photograph: Alamy,

About Poets: SYLVIA PLATH

Clasics in Ñspel: DAYBREAK IN ALABAMA, by Langston Hughes

Clasics in Ñspel: DAYBREAK IN ALABAMA, by Langston Hughes

Ocula: Profile / Artworks / Galleries / Exhibitions / Magazine / Press / Video & Audio

About Artists: THOMAS J PRICE

Poetry Society, 2 November 2017: In memoriam / Some poems. Photo: Crispin Hughes.

About Poets: SARAH MAGUIRE

Stevie Smith pictured in 1969. Photograph: Jane Bown/The Observer, 7 March 2021

About Poets: STEVIE SMITH

The Guardian, 21 July 2015: "Playing house: why Vanley Burke moved his entire flat into a gallery." Photograph: David Sillitoe.

About Artists: VANLEY BURKE

About Artists: CHLOE DEWE MATHEWS

About Artists: CHLOE DEWE MATHEWS

Poetry Foundation: Overview / Poems

About Poets: W.B. YEATS

CCA Galleries: Overview / Works / Biography

About Artists: BARBARA RAE

Bloodaxe: Overview / Books

About Poets: WAYNE HOLLOWAY-SMITH

Guardian Obituary, 5 June 2017. Photograph: Murdo Macleod.

About Poets: HELEN DUNMORE

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Site stats for 2021 – A Śort Spel

Daily Mail, 6 February 2016: "The scandalous life of artist John Bratby "

About Artists: JOHN BRATBY

The Guardian, 19 April 2019: "Theresa Lola named young people's laureate for London." Photograph: Hayley Madden/Spread the Word

About Poets: THERESA LOLA

Guardian, obituary, 2005: "Painter renowned for his bold style, making memorable emblems of everyday objects."

About Artists: PATRICK CAULFIELD

Poetry Foundation: profile + poems / Photo by Jeff Overs/BBC News & Current Affairs via Getty Images

About Poets: CLIVE JAMES

Royal Drawing School: Biography / Paintings

About Artists: NAHEM SHOA

"At a major retrospective of her work at the Pompidou Centre in Paris, the artist Mona Hatoum looks back on her Middle Eastern roots, her time in the UK and her use of tension to create remarkable art." / Photograph: Gian Ehrenzeller/EPA, for the Guardian, 28 August 2015

About Artists: MONA HATOUM

The Guardian, 5 June 2010: 'Louis MacNeice's letters show the poet's reserved but boundless curiosity.' Photograph: Writer Pictures.

About Poets: LOUIS MACNEICE

About Poets: PHILIP LARKIN

About Poets: PHILIP LARKIN

Photo by Andy Hall for the Observer, 12 October 2014: "The Royal Academy artist explains why he turned an industrial robot into a dancer – and his debt to Byron’s daughter."

About Artists: CONRAD SHAWCROSS

Guardian, 2018: "They rapped in its tunnels and played instruments made out of old science equipment. Could this be Cern’s most amazing experiment yet?" Photo: Sophia Bennett.

About Artists: HAROON MIRZA

Poetry Foundation: Doireann Ní Ghríofa. Photo: Tim Keane.

About Poets: DOIREANN NÍ GHRÍOFA

Lucian Freud, pictured circa 1990, died in 2011 aged 88. Photograph: David Montgomery/Getty Images

About Artists: LUCIAN FREUD

Portrait of William Cowper, engraved by Francesco Bartolozzi 1799 Sir Thomas Lawrence 1769-1830 Purchased 1991 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/T06463

Clasics in Ñspel: THE DIVERTING HISTORY OF JOHN GILPIN, by William Cowper

Poetry Foundation: Profile / Poetry / Prose / Related

About Poets: ANNE STEVENSON

Profile / Chapbooks / Translated poems / Links

About Poets: MIMI KHALVATI

From Czech: THE FORTUNE TELLER by Karel Čapek

From Czech: THE FORTUNE TELLER by Karel Čapek

Guardian, 2014: "Waitrose teams up with McGough in the hope verses will open purses." Photograph: Mark Mackenzie.

About Poets: ROGER McGOUGH

The Arts Desk, 2013: 10 Questions for Artist Michael Landy

About Artists: MICHAEL LANDY

Guardian, 2010: "The president of the Poetry Society talks to Sarah Crown."Photograph: Felix Clay.

About Poets: JO SHAPCOTT

Guardian, 30 September 2021: "Anish Kapoor on vaginas, recovering from breakdown and his violent new work: ‘Freud would have a field day’.""

About Artists: ANISH KAPOOR

Afridiziak: 'Nick Makoha - interview / 'My Father and Other Superheroes,' national tour, 2015

About Poets: NICK MAKOHA

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Clasics in Ñspel: THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS, by Kenneth Grahame

Guardian, 14 March 2016: Martin Parr webchat. Photograph: Emily Pennick/PA

About Artists: MARTIN PARR

A train on a line constructed by the China Road and Bridge Corporation and financed by Chinese government in Kimuka, Kenya. Photograph: Thomas Mukoya/Reuters

In Ñspel │ The Guardian view on Africa rising: the continent must develop in its own way

Photograph: Eamonn McCabe for the Guardian, 31 March 2007. "With his blasts against the war in Iraq, the monarchy and the poet laureateship, Tony Harrison fuels his poetry with politics. Now in his 70th year, he is as outspoken as ever"

About Poets: TONY HARRISON

Traces Project: Profile. Photo: Beate Planskoy, Eva Frankfurther's sister.

About Artists: EVA FRANKFURTHER

About Poets: RAYMOND ANTROBUS

About Poets: RAYMOND ANTROBUS

The Scaffold singing Lily the Pink on Top of the Pops, New Year’s Day, 1968. From left, John Gorman, Mike McGear and Roger McGough, sporting white suits. Photograph: Ivan Keeman/Redferns

Fṛm ɖ Gardịn │ Our song was Christmas No 1 and we wanted to watch it on TV. So we knocked on a stranger’s door

Audrey Walker's photograph Eardley painting facing the sea on the shore at Catterline, 1950s / National Galleries of Scotland

About Artists: JOAN EARDLEY

Culture Matters: Obituary / Jenny Farrell introduces extracts from Thomas Kinsella's poem, A Butcher's Dozen. 2019

About Poets: THOMAS KINSELLA

‘Cakeism is not a formula that works in government because, in reality, the cake has to be rationed and people notice.’ Photograph: WPA/Getty Images

Fṛm ɖ Gardịn │ The Tories said we could have our cake and eat it – now they are stuffed and voters are hungry

Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi for the Guardian, 2015. "The artist representing Britain at the Venice Biennale on being an ex-bovver girl and party animal, making money and frying eggs."

About Artists: SARAH LUCAS

Jazzwise, 8 July 2021: obituary.

About Poets: MICHAEL HOROVITZ

‘Rose Ayling-Ellis has been instrumental in creating a powerful change in attitudes through the beauty of her dancing.’ Ayling-Ellis and her partner, Giovanni Pernice, on Strictly Come Dancing. Photograph: Guy Levy/PA.

Fṛm Đ Obzrvr: Rose Ayling-Ellis’s Strictly victory shows deaf people can do anything

Spectator, 5 September 2015: review of 'Francis Bacon in Your Blood: A Memoir,' by Michael Peppiatt. Photo: Bacon in Paris in 1984.

About Artists: FRANCIS BACON

Bloodaxe: profile / books

About Poets: HELEN IVORY