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- Biteback: Why Simon Armitage should be the next Laureate - Times Online
Biteback: Why Simon Armitage should be the next LaureateTimes Online, UK - 15 hours agoBut one reason Motion got the job was that the government wanted to boost interest in poetry, which he has done. Early next year, the culture secretary, ...
- I'm never the same person: Prasoon Joshi - Hindustan Times
Oh, All right, Prasoon Joshi is going to be in Cannes next month - this time to chair the jury that will sit on judgement on outdoor advertising. And yes, he will be the third Asian (after Piyush Pandey and David Guerrero) to head a jury in Cannes ...
- Entertainment Calendar for June 26 - July 3 - NRToday.com
Entertainment Calendar for June 26 - July 3NRToday.com, OR - 55 minutes agoPOETRY SLAM — 6 pm, Granger Book Co., 111 Second Ave., Myrtle Creek. Read your own poetry or bring your favorite poem to read. Free public event. 793-5599. ...
- Auckland Uni Press Salutes Its Five Finalists - Scoop
Auckland University Press Salutes Its Five Finalists in Montana NZ Book Awards Auckland University Press has five finalist books, more finalists than any other single publisher, in the 2008 Montana New Zealand Book Awards shortlist announced today ...
- Impact Group Wows at Oscars, Uplifts at Home - ABC News
Earlier this year, at the Academy Awards, a group of singers took the stage at the Hollywood Kodak Theater and gave a performance that blew the audience away. Members of Impact practice their skills. (Heidi Gutman/ABC News) The song was called "Raise ...
- I like the sound of a pen making love to paper - Hindustan Times
I like the sound of a pen making love to paperHindustan Times, India - 1 minute agoPoetry is memorable for its big thought. A Road Less Travelled is not remembered for the metre or the rhyme, its immortality is in its thought. ...
- Spotlight falls on Claremont authors - Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
Such local works may soon be housed in a dedicated section of the city's library. Friends of the Claremont Library received $50,000 in seed money Tuesday from the City Council to help pay for the task of cataloging local tomes. The group will first ...
- Thicker Than Water - San Francisco Gate
One long-ago Palo Alto summer day, Nancy Packer's 11-year-old son kept interrupting a conversation she was trying to have with a friend in the kitchen. "George was bedeviling us," she recalls. "I told him, 'Go on away.' " He wouldn't, so she made him ...
- Call For Entries For The 2008 Costa Book Awards - Booktrade.info
Call For Entries For The 2008 Costa Book AwardsBooktrade.info, UK - 3 hours agoThe other four categories are Novel, First Novel, Poetry and Children's Book. The Costa Book Awards have the single aim of celebrating the most enjoyable ...
- New Zealand Poet Slated For Success - Scoop
“The intensity of NZ light, the breadth and imagination in our best thinking, strong attitudes and natural splendour, how our culture may appear as a quick-change melange, Britton celebrates and explores those perceptions and further. This ...
- book rack - Deccan Herald
book rackDeccan Herald, India - 2 hours agoLook we have Coming to Dover!; Daljit Nagra (Westland, 2008, pp 55, Rs 150) A debut collection of poetry that touches on themes like alienation, aspiration, ...
- Expanded festival makes room for entire 'arts family' - Arizona Republic
Expanded festival makes room for entire 'arts family'Arizona Republic, AZ - 3 hours agoYoung people and adults are entered for original song, poetry, short story, visual art and photography. New this year is a category on choreography. ...
- Nigeria: A Gift of Three Books (AllAfrica.com)
Undoubtedly there is a renaissance about the reading going on in Nigeria at the moment; I can feel this rebirth creeping upon me everyday. This renewed interest in books and reading comes in several forms.
- He had fame, sex appeal, bite, and you probably don't know him - Globe and Mail
He had fame, sex appeal, bite, and you probably don't know himGlobe and Mail, Canada - 1 hour agoAs it turned out, while he was writing some of the defining poems of the 20th century – “And what rough beast, its hour come round at last/ Slouches towards ...
- Chapbook competition for poets (Quad-City Times)
Midwest Writing Center has added a chapbook contest to its 35-year-old Mississippi Valley Poetry Contest. Emerging or published poets with a collection of poetry between 16-24 pages long may submit entries through July 31. The entry fee is $15 and multiple collections may be entered.
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