Yannis Andritsopoulos

The acclaimed poet speaks on tragedy, the loneliness of being human, and why we need poetry more than ever On a quiet street in north-west London, the poet Ruth Padel reflects on a life that has moved, for more than half a century, between Britain and Greece. She will turn 80 next Friday. The milestone sharpens her sense of poetry’s urgency in a fractured, fast-moving world. “We need poetry more and more,” she says in an interview with the Greek daily newspaper Ta Nea.

Βy Yannis Andritsopoulos, London Correspondent for the Greek daily newspaper Ta Nea (iandritsopoulos@gmail.com) Peter Swallow, the first Labour MP for Bracknell and one of Westminster’s rising voices, is hardly a conventional politician. At just 32, he entered Parliament last year after a career as a classics lecturer and researcher, specialising in Aristotle, Aristophanes and the role of ancient ideas in shaping modern culture.

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