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- Boyd Tonkin: Breaking the ice for poetry and pop (Independent)
Always accessible, never predictable, Derek Mahon has run long and well as the dark horse of Irish poetry. Born in Belfast, a contemporary of Seamus Heaney and Michael Longley, an avid traveller but now settled in the dinky foodie port of Kinsale in Co Cork, he likes to keep a surprise or two up his ever-shapely literary sleeve.
- Writers pick up pens to protest detentions - MSNBC
LONDON - Dozens of renowned British writers came out against new anti-terrorism legislation Sunday, publishing a collection of satire, essays, fiction and poetry to protest a proposal allowing police to hold suspects without charge for up to 42 days ...
- Peterborough's Poet laureate is named - Peterborough Today
Peterborough's Poet laureate is namedPeterborough Today, UK - 4 hours ago... competitors reading their poems about remembrance on stage at the John Clare Theatre in Central Library – but topics ranged from war poetry to looking ...
- The antidote to universal troubles (Times Online)
The most concise distillation of why poetry matters is in Alan Bennett’s play The History Boys. When one of the boys complains that most poetry is about things that haven’t happened to them yet, \ Hector replies: “It will. And then you will have the antidote ready. Grief. Happiness.
- CAMPAIGN 2008—He’s running for president? (Brick)
“Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.â€â€”Leonard Cohen Perhaps you’ve suffered through a whack poetry scene before.
- Outward bound with Vargas Llosa - guardian.co.uk
Outward bound with Vargas Llosaguardian.co.uk, UK - 17 hours ago... was hanged for treason in 1916 and painted as a paedophile by the British government for what he is said to have written in the so-called Black Diaries. ...
- Cross purposes - Newburyport Current
Cross purposesNewburyport Current, MA - 9 hours ago“A key fact is to learn that no child or adult can give consent for a clergy member to advance the spiritual relationship to one of a physical nature, ...
- View from Dubai: East Meets West on Dubai Beach (Middle East Times)
LIKE NIGHT AND DAY -- It was a classic encounter between East and West: two drunk Britons got copped for trying to devour each other one night on Dubai's Jumeirah beach then assaulting a policeman. Photo shows a family on the same beach.
- Coffee Shop reopens in Mt. Holly - Belmont & Mount Holly BannerNews
Coffee Shop reopens in Mt. HollyBelmont & Mount Holly BannerNews, CN - 8 hours agoAt the Java Bean, live music and open-mic poetry readings will soon be featured. Friday at 6 pm, local guitarist-singer Angie Medlin will perform. ...
- Rosie Gets a Broadway Theater - FOX News
So: Rosie O’Donnell’s live show on NBC has gotten itself a Broadway house. It’s just as I told you: Rosie’s show on November 26th is the test for a weekly, live variety show a la Ed Sullivan. And the theater is: the Shubert. While I love the ...
- Right day, wrong place (The Terrell Tribune)
Traffic woes were of no concern for the earliest voters who flocked to the Kaufman County Sub-Courthouse this morning, but many of them were at the wrong place.
- Parting is such sweet sorrow - Tonight South Africa
It isn't easy to leave behind a character you've played for a decade. And Isidingo's Lesego Motsepe struggled to deal with the heavy blow after learning of the tragic end of her character, Letti Matabane. "I still feel that there is a lot more I ...
- How secular is America? - HardNews Magazine
How secular is America?HardNews Magazine, India - 2 hours agoIs there something wrong with some seven-year-old Muslim-American kid believing that he or she could be president? Yet, I have heard senior members of my ...
- Poet registers protest with blood - GreaterKashmir.com (press release)
Poet registers protest with bloodGreaterKashmir.com (press release), India - 3 hours agoHe painted floral designs- and wrote Urdu couplets- on the walls of rooms of his home. He read Urdu poetry, listened to ghazals (often so late in the ...
- Elementary, My Dears column: The best of times for teachers - San Mateo County Times
Elementary, My Dears column: The best of times for teachersSan Mateo County Times, CA - 3 hours agoScholars have deconstructed Poe's poetry for well over a century, and none have had such an insightful, poignant perspective. ...
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