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- Keen eye for the everyday - Hereford Times
Keen eye for the everydayHereford Times, UK - 16 minutes agoTO coincide with the Ledbury Poetry Festival, this month’s book group selection is Two Cures for Love: Selected Poems 1979-2006 by Wendy Cope, ...
- Paperback: Tennis Whites and Teacakes, by John Betjeman (Independent)
How delightful that a statue of the man who wrote "It is useless to pretend that I enjoy myself abroad" adorns the refurbished St Pancras. Equally dubious about the expat life ("Our savings gone, we climb the stony path/ Back to the house with scorpions in the bath"), Betjeman extolled the delights of the Northern Line's City Branch ("a strong smell of wet feet"). What he wrote of Waugh – "he ...
- Serbia's bitter salute to nationhood - Guardian Unlimited
I ought to have expected to hear Serbian nationalist poetry at the third international literature festival in Novi Sad, but it is still a surprise to share a stage with a poet delivering verses with titles like Prayer for Kosovo and refrains that ...
- China: Gain and loss in the emerging economic giant (Seattle Times)
I find a new China every time I arrive. Yet my very first experience almost 18 years ago continues to shape my perceptions. It helps me measure what was gained and what was lost during the most sweeping transformation any country has ever experienced.
- It's hell getting old - Creative Loafing Tampa
It's hell getting oldCreative Loafing Tampa, FL - 7 hours agoThe amazing Stanley Kunitz (1905-2006) kept writing fine poetry into his 90s. But usually the ending isn't good. I remember Mom and Dad on their deathbeds, ...
- 'Katorse Shorts': The long and short of it - ABS-CBN
Watching "Katorse Shorts", an omnibus of short films produced by the Katorse Writers’ Group, "a group of young writer-filmmakers who were part of Ricky Lee’s 14th Scriptwriting Workshop"—as they describe themselves—one realizes how many films ...
- 10 for the Road (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
10 for the Road You can plan now to attend these weekend events, occurring within a few weeks and within a day's drive of Philadelphia.
- Gueco: Merci beaucoup - Sun.Star
Gueco: Merci beaucoupSun.Star, Philippines - 4 hours agoBursting forth with energies in fulfilling our work as a writer, springing up with the vitality of an artist, soaring high on the wings of words, prose or ...
- Van Cliburn in Moscow Vol. 3 - Audiophile Audition
Audiophile AuditionVan Cliburn in Moscow Vol. 3Audiophile Audition - 48 minutes ago... as if it were coming from the heart, and whatever limitations the piano sound suffers from are overcome by the intensity and poetry of the performance. ...
- Poetry in motion (Calgary Sun)
Hands up ... how many people reading this column have ever heard of Ashley Harkleroad? Since I don't see any hands in the air, I'll fill you in. Ashley Harkleroad is the 72nd-ranked player on the WTA tour.
- There's no rhyme or reason to this ban - Guardian Unlimited
Having been head of English at my school for some years now, I find it deeply disturbing that the exam board, AQA, should withdraw Carol Ann Duffy's amazing poem about knife crime from their anthology. If any poem should be studied as an antidote to ...
- Desolate imagery focus of exhibit - UNM Daily Lobo (subscription)
Desolate imagery focus of exhibitUNM Daily Lobo (subscription), NM - 4 hours agoThere will also be a poetry workshop held by Miriam Sagan on Sept. 13 from 2 to 3:30 pm that will feature readings from Book Lung, a magnificently oversized ...
- Robert Giroux, 94, editor and publisher who guided prominent author, dies (Arizona Daily Star)
Robert Giroux, an editor and publisher who introduced and nurtured some of the major authors of the 20th century and ultimately added his name to one of the nation's most distinguished publishing houses, died Friday in Tinton Falls, N.J. He was 94.
- 195th Bhanu Jayanti observed - Nepalnews.com
Nepalnews.com195th Bhanu Jayanti observedNepalnews.com, Nepal - 50 minutes agoSchools across the country also celebrate this day by organizing poetry contest among the students and giving away prizes for academic excellence. ...
- Composer Stephen Foster's life in city helped shape music (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
Stephen Collins Foster's young years in Pittsburgh in the 1800s helped shaped the music he would write later in his life.
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