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Observer New Review guest editor Kate Tempest asks seven fellow poets who she admires to answer one anothers questions about their craft, and how they define success I find it frustrating when reading profiles of artists how little attention is paid to discussion of practice. I have found there to be a tendency to encourage

Residents of Franklin turn out in force to rebuff Gabrielle Hanson, who failed to denounce support of white supremacist group Middle Tennessean voters have soundly rejected a mayoral candidate who refused to to denounce the support of neo-Nazis in a poll that drew four times as many voters than in a similar ballot four years

After police failed to solve his sons murder, Francisco Holgado infiltrated the local criminal underworld in pursuit of those responsible. He became a national hero but at what cost? At 4.30am on 22 November 1995, taxi number 69 pulled into the Campsa Red petrol station in La Constancia, a scruffy neighbourhood in the centre

From the magic realism of the tropics to the gritty city, Latin American literature is as rich and beguiling as the region itself A sense of place often has a political edge in Latin American writing. Even magic realism which takes fantastic liberties with the contours of cities and pueblos, jungles and rivers

You asked why I drank when I know what happens to girls who drink: the letter you always wanted to write It was after midnight when I finally plucked up the courage. My ex, I said, my voice rough. He raped me. There, I thought: its out in the open. I was disconcerted, though. The