Gate; Barbican, London An exciting rising star and imaginative production make for an enthralling trip to The Unknown Island, and a take on Bergman is stylish but slow-moving
Do we read poetry for a quick therapeutic fix or seek in its complexities something as overworked, stressed and broken as we are? Both, of course. Here are five Australian poets to read right now
Maya Jaggi: A communist who quarrelled with the church and fell out with Castro, the Portuguese Nobel laureate was wedded to the 'possibility of the impossible' and to the questioning of 'truths'