Patti Smith: ‘I related completely to Bob Dylan. His arrogance, his humour’

The rock’n’roll poet on breaking barriers, hanging out with Dylan, and supporting Sally Rooney

Various Artists: Beautiful Freaks review – when bands used to stick it to the man

An intriguing compilation of alternative sounds from the 1960s counter-culture

Before Stonewall: Secret scrapbooks uncover how gay people were criminalised

Photographer and writer Carl Van Vechten documented queer experiences in the decades before the 1969 riots

The night Jeff Buckley played Trinity Ball, after watching the Late Late

RTÉ to broadcast documentary of singer performing his first gig outside the US

A lost New York rescued from the bunker of William Burroughs

Aaron Brookner’s film Uncle Howard is about his late film-maker uncle – but it is also about Aids, a disappeared New York and the dangerous Burroughs

Saul Williams: A poet who generates his own electricity

After Williams recited his first poem on stage in 1995, his ascent was rapid

Blowin’ our mind: what Van Morrison means to us

‘A punk before punk was a twinkle in its eye-linered eye,’ says poet Paul Muldoon. How do other fans and friends sum him up?

What is poetry? Three masters look for answers

Beekeeping, Belfast and Buddhism: books of lectures by Harry Clifton, Paula Meehan and Michael Longley cast the net wide

Death of former Evening Press journalist Seán McCann

Hailed by Con Houlihan as ‘a brilliant features editor’

Brendan’s tragic voyage: Behan in the USA: The Rise and Fall of the Most Famous Irishman in New York

Review: The deterioration of Behan’s health and talent during his three-year love affair with the US is the subject of a fascinating book

Teenager, who died after drinking hallucinogen during tribal ritual, left on road

British man in remote rainforest area of Colombia when he took drug with local tribe

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Kill Your Darlings

Magical mystery tour: ‘The public weren’t aware the Beatles had changed’

Paul Howard chats to ‘Magical Mystery Tour’ collaborator Gerry Harrison about Tara Browne (the reputed subject of ‘A Day in the Life’), 1967 and LSD

Unlikely icon of Beat generation who led extraordinary life

Carolyn Cassady - Born: April 28th, 1923; Died: September 20th, 2013