Irish Independent, 2018: "I believe that two lines of poetry can save a life." Photo: Caroline Quinn.

About Poets: PAULA MEEHAN

Clasics in Ñspel: ON A LANE IN SPRING, by John Clare

Clasics in Ñspel: ON A LANE IN SPRING, by John Clare

The Observer, interview, 23 August 2015: "Soon there won’t be any kids with estuary accents in art schools." Photo: Rob Greig.

About Artists: BOB AND ROBERTA SMITH

Revista Biografia: profile (in Portuguese) / artworks

About Artists: ANA MARIA PACHECO

The Guardian, 20 September 2017: "Simon Armitage webchat – your questions answered on poetry, austerity and Beyoncé." Photograph: Gareth Phillips.

About Poets: SIMON ARMITAGE

The Observer, interview, 25 April 2016: "I used to be anti-beauty." Photograph: Pal Hansen.

About Artists: JENNY SAVILLE

The Guardian, 4 October 2012: "The watery verse of a poet who lives on a narrowboat is to be inscribed on new lock gates in the hope it will inspire people to explore their local waterways."

About Poets: JO BELL

Art News, 15 December 2014: 'Double Take: Jane and Louise Wilson.'

About Artists: JANE AND LOUISE WILSON

W Magazine, 29 November 2016: "Young at Art: Painter Rose Wylie Is Emerging as a Star at Age 83." Photo: Joe McGorty.

About Artists: ROSE WYLIE

The Guardian, 28 July 2020: "Michael Rosen on the serious consequences of the government’s poor handling of the pandemic."

About Poets: MICHAEL ROSEN

The National Gallery: Associate Artist, 2003-5.

About Artists: JOHN VIRTUE

The Guardian, 13 September 2014: "Kei Miller wins Forward poetry prize." Photo: Graham Turner.

About Poets: KEI MILLER

Powmz fṛm Uncl Arʈr: BETTER

Powmz fṛm Uncl Arʈr: BETTER

The Irish Times, obituary, 5 August 2018: ‘One of the finest poets of his generation, a craftsman of the highest achievement.'

About Poets: MATTHEW SWEENEY

Blanc Magazine, 2017: Profile / Artworks

About Artists: ZADIE XA

Creative Boom, 10 January 2018: "Secret Garden: Artist Ian Berry crafts a path of nature entirely out of denim jeans." Photo: Lucinda Grange.

About Artists: IAN BERRY

3:AM Magazine, 1 September 2010: "Ivor Cutler, Cult Hero"

About Poets: IVOR CUTLER

The Guardian, 14 January 2014: "The TS Eliot prize for poetry 2013 winner talks about her delight over the prize, and the many perspectives in her winning collection, Parallax." Photo: Queens University.

About Poets: SINÉAD MORRISSEY

Art in America, interiew, 28 April 2017

About Artists: RYAN GANDER

The Guardian, 3 April 2016: review of "The Bricks That Built the Houses." Photograph: Felix Clay.

About Poets: KAE TEMPEST

Art News, 26 January 2017: "The Art of Renewable Youth: The Iconoclastic Roger Hiorns Wants to Make Work That Slips Through the Problem of Time."

About Artists: ROGER HIORNS

The Guardian, interview, 28 May 2018: "The most formalist poetry I have been exposed to is rap lyrics." Photograph: Linda Nylind.

About Poets: KAYO CHINGONYI

The Guardian, 11 April 2018, obituary: "One of Britain’s most popular abstract painters known for her huge vibrant canvases bursting with colour." Photograph: Antonio Olmos.

About Artists: GILLIAN AYRES

Erfurt Electronic Studies in English: An appreciation by Anette Degott, 1995

About Poets: NORMAN MacCAIG

The Guardian, 20 March 2018, interview: "Anthea Hamilton on how she plans to top her Turner prize buttocks." Photograph: David Levene.

About Artists: ANTHEA HAMILTON

The Guardian, 24 January 2018: "Inside Dr Frankenstein's studio: Glenn Brown on his macabre mashups." Photograph: Martin Godwin.

About Artists: GLENN BROWN

Varsity, 6 June 2013, interview: "The Birds and the Butterflies"

About Poets: GILLIAN CLARKE

The Guardian, 23 April 2014: "Richard Wilson: my giant Heathrow sculpture started in a vat of margarine." Photograph: David Levene.

About Artists: RICHARD WILSON

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