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- Exhibitions preview - Guardian Unlimited
Poetic flights of fancy would appear to be an apt description of the contemporary work of Axel Antas. This is because his makeshift assemblages, sculptures and interventions are rooted fundamentally in an absurd futility that forces us to consider ...
- Dante's infernal crimes forgiven - Daily Telegraph
Florence's city council has approved a motion revoking a sentence on Dante from 1302 which stated that he would be executed if he stepped foot in the city again. The sentence forced Dante into exile and he spent the last 20 years of his life ...
- Outside Edge - The Independent
It's a tradition handed down through generations of football journalists that at every major tournament they must file some beer stories. Who are we to argue? This week's frothy outpourings from Euro 2008 include a Salzburg bar dishing out free ...
- BORO BACKING FOR CHIP PAN CAMPAIGN By Rob Nichols - FansOnLine.net
FansOnLine.netBORO BACKING FOR CHIP PAN CAMPAIGN By Rob NicholsFansOnLine.net, UK - 24 minutes agoLynn Ford, of Stockton, has published a book of poems she has written about her son Andrew’s life that was taken in a fire at their family home. ‘Poetry of ...
- Imagination comes to life - Amherst Citizen
Imagination comes to lifeAmherst Citizen, Canada - 2 hours agoThere is not enough poetry in our world spoken, nor set to such carefully crafted sonic backdrops. Other pieces during the evening were similarly complex ...
- Send in the Latrines (New York Times)
Food, shelter and clean water are what aid agencies emphasize. But human excrement is a weapon of mass destruction, transferring diseases such as cholera, meningitis and typhoid.
- Lowertown Festival Kicks Off Holiday Weekend - WPSD TV
With gas prices higher than ever, some folks are opting to stay a little closer to home this 2008 Memorial Day weekend. There's plenty to do nearby, like the Lowertown Arts Festival in Paducah. Poetry and performance art mixed things up at the annual ...
- It takes more than one band - Newsdurhamregion.com
It takes more than one bandNewsdurhamregion.com, Canada - 7 hours agoIn these times, popular music is about as relevant to everyday life as poetry and theatre. It will always have a place for those who truly love it, ...
- Irish aim to get talking - Oxford Mail
Irish aim to get talkingOxford Mail, UK - 15 minutes agoMrs Plunkett, of Sandfield Road, Headington, said: "We're hoping to set up a group that could regularly meet for story-telling, poetry, songs and general ...
- Stone the Crows: In praise of a neglected high flyer - The Independent
Dark, malevolent andmajestic, the crow has inspired endless legends and works of literature. But few realise that they've also shaped Britain's landscape. Rob Sharp meets an author determined to place the corvid on an elevated perch On the Norfolk ...
- Stony Brook Southampton adds on to successful witers conference (Southampton Press)
This year’s Southampton Writers Conference will boast a larger cast of writers and characters than ever before, with almost three times as many workshops and events.
- Stockton youth seek to give city positive spin at poetry event - Record
Loreal Nelms is going to Washington, D.C., to make a statement about her hometown. She wants to show that Stockton's reputation as a city that lacks education and struggles with literacy is overblown. She wants to prove that our young people are ...
- You write the reviews: Jack Kerouac and Steve Allen, Poetry for the Beat Generation, Zonophone (Independent)
On this rerelease of his debut spoken-world album from 1959, Jack Kerouac, one of the lead voices of the Beat generation of writers in the 1950s and 1960s, reads selections of his own work over the sympathetic accompaniment of the pianist Steve Allen.It features poems collected in Mexico City Blues, Old Angel Midnight, Heaven & Other Poems and a number of unpublished works, in which the poet ...
- Alexandra Reinhardt 1960–2004. River and Red Butterfly ... - British Journal of Psychiatry (subscription)
Alexandra Reinhardt 1960–2004. River and Red Butterfly ...British Journal of Psychiatry (subscription), UK - 2 hours agoIn her twenties she was the first deaf student at the Chelsea College of Art and continued to use the visual arts and poetry as a means of expressing the ...
- Author Doty indulges passion for poetry, prose - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Pittsburgh Post GazetteAuthor Doty indulges passion for poetry, prosePittsburgh Post Gazette, PA - 4 hours ago... splitting his writing life between both fields. Doty, 55, released his first poetry collection in 1991 and his eighth this year, "Fire to Fire. ...
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