A 48-year-old man has been remanded in custody after being charged with the murder of poet Anne Cluysenaar, aged 78, who was found dead at her farm near Usk in Gwent on Saturday.Timothy Jackson, of Sheffield, appeared at a hearing at Newport magistrates' court on Tuesday.

Anne Cluysenaar was born in Belgium, and her family moved to Britain just before the outbreak of the second world war. She has lectured in literature, linguistics and creative writing at the universities of Manchester, Dublin, Aberdeen, Lancaster, Birmingham and Cardiff. She founded two literary journals, Sheaf and Scintilla, and her books include Timeslips: New and Selected Poems (Carcanet, 1997). Batu-Angas was published by Seren in 2008. She had lived in Wales for the last 20 years, running a smallholding near Usk.

Police named her on Monday night as Anne Jackson. She lived at Little Wentwood Farm with her husband.