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- Boardwalk in Durban - October 7, 2008 - Tonight
Boardwalk in Durban - October 7, 2008Tonight, South Africa - 6 minutes agoThe Playhouse Opera: Poetry in Motion, a fusion of Indian poetry, dance, music and visual art. Saturday at 7pm. Tickets R40 to R80 at Computicket.
- Strategic strokes keep bank chiefs on the money - South China Morning Post (subscription)
Strategic strokes keep bank chiefs on the moneySouth China Morning Post (subscription), Hong Kong - Aug 1, 2008"For successful people at that level, it's very fashionable to talk about Chinese poetry and traditions," says Xie Jialin, a professor at the University of ...
- Poets tackle death and dying for hospice - Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Auckland stuff.co.nzPoets tackle death and dying for hospiceScoop.co.nz (press release), New Zealand - 9 hours agoHe has chosen contemporary poetry because it explores the subjects of death and grief head-on. ‘Poems are the words we turn to when words fail us: when we ...Poems used to ease grief Auckland stuff.co.nzall 3 news articles
- Coo de grace - Sydney Morning Herald
The verse will soar during the Pigeon Poetry Cup. Erik Jensen reports. THE BLUFF pokes out into the Tasman. Hang-gliders launch there, Wollongong wheezing in the background. Japanese tourists stop to have their pictures taken. And on Sunday, a ...
- Bonnie's Book Bytes: Billy Collins's "Ballistics" (The Mass Media)
The term "ballistics" doesn't come up often in conversation, save those discussions on missiles or today's prevalence of warfare. An even better discussion on ballistics would revolve around Billy Collins's new book of poetry called "Ballistics." As we well know, a ballistic missile is a projectile that is controlled on ascent and falls freely on descent.
- Charlotte Grimshaw wins Montana Medal - Newstalk ZB
"Opportunity" has helped Auckland writer Charlotte Grimshaw to victory. She has won the Montana Medal for fiction or poetry for the acclaimed short story collection at a gala dinner in Wellington last night. She is pleased Opportunity has done well ...
- Joshua Beckman and Matthew Zapruder - Publishers Weekly
Joshua Beckman and Matthew ZapruderPublishers Weekly, NY - 2 hours agoThe book was a huge hit by poetry standards, selling around 6500 copies to date. Verse Press developed something of a cult following among young poets and ...
- 1947 changed her life - The Asian Age
1947 changed her lifeThe Asian Age, India - 6 hours agoIt was the year 1947, a young girl from Hyderabad met poet Kaifi Azmi at a mushaira (poetry session), love blossomed and the two got married. ...
- Iran's Mr Nice - satire on a tightrope (AFP via Yahoo! News)
In Iran, satirising the establishment can mean being slapped with a publication ban or even jail for an editor. Making fun of the president and senior leaders is not a task to be undertaken lightly.
- The Cowboy Way: 20th symposium to bring new display, familiar ... - LubbockOnline.com
The Cowboy Way: 20th symposium to bring new display, familiar ...LubbockOnline.com, TX - 1 hour ago... and Western singers and poets will perform their music and poetry at the gathering. The West Texas Native American Association plans to continue its ...
- Art: Form trumps Function - Minneapolis Star Tribune
Art: Form trumps FunctionMinneapolis Star Tribune, MN - Aug 8, 2008In their delicate geometries, there is a sacerdotal quality to Kress' handsome forms -- as if, like the communion cups of Christian ritual, they were made ...
- Mets' future looks bright with B-Mets - Press & Sun-Bulletin
The last regular-season game is scheduled for the Mets home park today. The closing hasn't inspired the kind of poetry and nostalgia that the final game of Yankee Stadium did across town last week, but it's a sad time for many Mets fans. When you ...
- art September 8 - 13 at G.C. Laha Centenary Fine Arts Gallery, 7 Chittaranjan Avenue, 1st floor, #6521 6931; 1 pm - 7 ... (The Telegraph)
Love and Lovers , an exhibition of paintings by Arindam Bose and Barindam Bose. September 8 - 14 at Gallery Arti Visual, 1/1W Gariahat Road (South), Jodhpur Park; 3 pm - 8 pm: The Myth of Prometheus — the first solo exhibition of paintings and photographs on vinyl by Sabya Sachi Ghosh.
- South Africa: Mandela is the Epitome of Struggle And Aspiration of ... - AllAfrica.com
AFPSouth Africa: Mandela is the Epitome of Struggle And Aspiration of ...AllAfrica.com, Washington - 6 hours agoOn Friday, July 18, the people of Buea and beyond shall be thrilled to a cultural evening in honour of Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday. ...Event to pay tribute to Nelson Mandela Bermuda SunWishes for Madiba pour in as city gets ready to party Cape Argus (subscription)all 519 news articles
- David Helfgott was born to shine - Courier Mail
David Helfgott was born to shineCourier Mail, Australia - 2 hours agoThere was so much poetry, beauty and excitement in his playing the other night. And, of course, he had a standing ovation." Gillian concedes that many might ...
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