Paul Muldoon recalls numerous pilgrimages to the rugged west coast of Ireland, where the remains of WB Yeats may or may not be buried, as per his poetical final request. Show more

Lauren Elkin finds Oscar Wilde in Pere Lachaise, Paris, where the outsider in life overshadows in death the greats of French literature jostling for space in the famous cemetery. Show more

Diana Souhami steps into the tomb of Radclyffe Hall in Highgate Cemetery, where The Well of Loneliness author is buried with her lover, her lover’s husband and their dog Tulip. Show more

Anita Sethi journeys to the grave of Anne Brontë, overlooking the sea she so loved, and considers why she was buried high on a Scarborough hill away from her better-known sisters. Show more

Paterson Joseph retraces the footsteps of pioneering writer, composer and abolitionist Ignatius Sancho through Westminster to a lost grave beneath the still-pulsing streets. Show more

Helen Mort ventures up a Yorkshire hill to find Sylvia Plath’s much-vandalised gravestone, a battleground for those claiming the American poet's contested legacy. Show more

In a moving reflection on mother-daughter relationships, Naomi Alderman visits Old St Pancras churchyard, searching for the tomb of the often overlooked Mary Wollstonecraft. Show more

Tracy Chevalier strolls to Stinsford, the Dorset village where Thomas Hardy’s heart is poetically buried, separately from his body at Poets' Corner, Westminster Show more

Booker Prize-shortlisted Brandon Taylor travels uptown through a racially charged Manhattan to Harlem, where Langston Hughes is buried in a library literally underneath his words. Show more

Geoff Dyer retraces a pilgrimage to New Mexico, where DH Lawrence’s ashes may or may not have been built into a shrine near Taos, as requested by his estranged wife Frieda. Show more