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14/09/2023 - The debut feature from Hungarian filmmaker Katalin Moldovai meticulously explores political correctness’ destructive power on teaching

Top 10: the TS Eliot Prize shortlist Each year, the T S Eliot Prize offers poets a chance to win a huge sack of cash, and critics a chance to generalise about trends in poetry. So here goes: long fragmentary narratives are in, love poems are out (though Natalie Diaz unfashionably flies the flag for sensual abandon). Who’ll win the £25,000 prize? If I were judging, it’d be Sasha Dugdale or Shane McCrae. But I’m not, so I’d bet on Diaz, with a side-flutter on Bhanu Kapil. I’m sore about the omission of Timothy Donnelly’s superb The Problem of the Many, and wouldn’t have minded ...

Daisy Lafarge’s Life Without Air was published this year by Granta Books. Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry, the collection explores states of airlessness, from ghostly asphyxiations to the toxic environments of extractive capitalism, and ensuring consequences both psychic and ecological. Granta spoke to the poet about the zoonotic diseases, ancient processes of inoculation and resisting totalising metaphors.   The title of the collection is ‘Life Without Air’ – a reference to the eighteenth-century scientist Louis Pasteur’s term for fermentation. It’s a strong i...