Clive James's new collection of poetry looks at his past but is far from mournful nostalgia; it celebrates his eventful life

Review of new poetry from Carol Ann Duffy, Derwent May, W.G. Sebald and Tomas Tranströmer

The 17th-century Dean celebrated prosperity as well as poetry and felt no need to transform the Church into an agency of social work

Philip Larkin's letters to his lover Monica Jones speak of a non-sexual intimacy and chart his progression to poetic maturity