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- Passchendaele: Gross' personal odyssey - Toronto Sun
Paul Gross was searching for the poetry when he crafted Passchendaele, his epic film about Canadian tragedy and valour in the First World War. Not the "sappy adolescent poetry" he wrote as a teen when his maternal grandfather, WWI veteran Michael ...
- The Not Dead by Simon Armitage - Times Online
The Not Dead by Simon ArmitageTimes Online, UK - 9 hours agoThe First World War marked the bloody heyday of war poetry. The combination of a highly literate fighting force and long periods of enforced inactivity and ...
- Check out local independent authors, illustrators - Guelph Mercury
Check out local independent authors, illustratorsGuelph Mercury, Canada - 4 hours agoMy books Pizza Pete and Billy Bluejay, two children's stories, Bridges, a collection of poetry and short stories, and Sherwood Park, a young adult novel, ...
- Homeless In The Capital At Museum Of London - Londonist
LondonistHomeless In The Capital At Museum Of LondonLondonist, UK - 1 hour agoDiaries, video, artwork, poetry and artefacts of life on the streets have been collected over 18 months for a display that shows the daily life of the ...
- On Ruskin Bond's poetry - The Daily Star
The Daily StarOn Ruskin Bond's poetryThe Daily Star, Bangladesh - 4 hours agoAt heart, though, poetry remained his first love, and the author occasionally slipped his “poems into my prose works and anthologies when my publishers ...
- Go and Do - Portsmouth's Best Pizza Contest (Portsmouth Herald)
Sponsored by Portsmouth Sunrise Rotary, the Portsmouth's Best Pizza Contest 2008 will be held from noon to 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 19 at Redhook Ale Brewery, 35 Corporate Drive, Pease Tradeport, Portsmouth. Live music and enough pizza to fill your belly.
- Oedipus, National Theatre: Olivier, London A disappearing number, Barbican, London (Independent)
It's more than a decade since the National staged Sophocles's great primal tragedy. The difference of approach between the two productions is stark. In 1996, Peter Hall went for broke, renewing the ancient Greek practices of mask and ritualised movement and using a translation of rhyming couplets. Jonathan Kent's new Olivier production shows what can be achieved with a style that mediates ...
- Book reviews: Unpacking the Boxes and Delta Blues (International Herald Tribune)
"In childhood nothing happened." So Donald Hall says in his enchanting memoir, writes the reviewer Peter Stevenson. What Hall is getting at, of course, is that "nothing" is a perfectly appropriate way to describe how the unfolding of life - particularly a child's life - can feel. He is hinting at that uncanny sensation one can have as a child when something vividly alive and unfathomable, which ...
- Zion Lutheran, Gibsonburg - Fremont News Messenger
Zion Lutheran, GibsonburgFremont News Messenger, OH - 2 hours agoThe weekend of worship and praise will start with a musical at 5 pm Saturday, featuring choirs from Fremont, Sandusky and Detroit, poetry reading, ...
- Port Edwards/Nekoosa community briefs - Daily Tribune
Jeffrey and Joan Johannes of Port Edwards both placed in the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets 2008 Triad poetry contest in the Designated Theme category judged by Laurel Yourke of Madison. This year's theme was water. Jeffrey received second place and a ...
- Every School Every Thursday - Des Moines West (The Des Moines Register)
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- Internet messages shed light on murder plot in Steinke trial - Calgary Herald
Internet messages shed light on murder plot in Steinke trialCalgary Herald, Canada - 19 minutes agoInternet messages and poetry sent under Steinke's online username "souleater" written to "runaway devil," the username of his ex-girlfriend, ...
- The Poetry of Pain: Slam Poet Gayle Danley Teaches Kids How to Soothe Their Wounds (Washington Post)
She starts off with a poem titled "Round Like Bubbles": "Round like a big fat green birthday balloon kissing the sky," Gayle Danley begins, then turns her backside to the audience of fourth-, fifth- and sixth-graders at Deerfield Run Elementary School in Laurel and adds, "Why can't I have a round...
- Soldier-poet reads to Madison High students - Morris County Daily Record
MADISON -- Before soldier-poet Brian Turner visited Madison High School, senior Yuqing Meng never expected to think poetry could be cool. "I am one of those people who thought poetry was mainly about nature, flowers, emotions," Yuqing said after ...
- 'Little Big Planet' Musician Defends Song That Caused Game To Be Recalled (MTV Music Television)
Toumani Diabate, the musician who created the controversial song in the video game "Little Big Planet," which was recalled last week over concern that the song was offensive to Muslims, said the song is his "way to attract and inspire people toward Islam.
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