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- Crossing the Sea, at Wilton's Music Hall, E1 - Times Online
Crossing the Sea, at Wilton's Music Hall, E1Times Online, UK - 7 hours agoDrawing its texts from 7th-century Chinese poetry, it tells a simple story. A woman waits for her lover, who is fighting overseas. ...
- Complex History (Cincinnati CityBeat)
By Steven Lansky.
- READING THE OED - New York Times
READING THE OEDNew York Times, United States - Aug 1, 2008Théophile Gautier read the dictionary to enrich and exoticize his poetry. Walter Pater read the dictionary to keep his prose pure and marmoreal — to learn ...
- Gentleman Ronnie made everyone around him feel better about themselves - Irish Independent
Gentleman Ronnie made everyone around him feel better about themselvesIrish Independent, Ireland - 1 hour agoHer loss was devastating As a man who appreciated poetry, Ronnie Drew would probably have seen something of himself in this doggerel: "Between the optimist ...
- Ageing chimp's own story on list for first book award - Guardian Unlimited
The autobiography of an acting chimpanzee is going head to head with a cold war love story and a novel about the assassination of a Pakistani dictator in this year's Guardian first book award. Me Cheeta: the Autobiography, is billed as the true story ...
- The Power Of Peter Piper: How Alliteration Enhances Poetry, Prose ... - Science Daily (press release)
The Power Of Peter Piper: How Alliteration Enhances Poetry, Prose ...Science Daily (press release) - 10 hours ago... State University had participants read works of poetry and prose with alliterative sentences to show the importance of repetitive consonants on memory. ...
- Poetry at the 2012 Olympic Games? There's no rhyme or reason why not - Times Online
There is something historically incomplete about the modern Olympic motto of “citius, altius, fortius” or “faster, higher, stronger”. But in this lies an opportunity for the London Games. The original games of Ancient Greece included an ...
- Book Reviews - Tablet
Book Review, 26 June 2008 Reviewed by John Casey Poetry’s serious endeavour Geoffrey Hill: collected critical writings Ed. Kenneth Haynes OUP, £25
- Off my Rocker - Novato Advance
Off my RockerNovato Advance, CA - 3 hours agoI’ve also kept every homemade poetry collection from all of my 8th grade classes. Many times, when people die, survivors construct a shrine showing pictures ...
- Queen Arwa: 79 years over throne - Yemen Observer
Queen Arwa: 79 years over throneYemen Observer, Yemen - 36 minutes agoShe was literate and loved poetry and history. In 461 AH, Arwa married al-Mokarram Ahmed ben Ali. They had four children: Mohammed, Ali, Fatima and Oum ...
- Eshtiaq to perform in Tehran (mehrnews.com)
TEHRAN, Aug. 12 (MNA) -- Vocalist Alireza Qorbani and his band “Eshtiaq” will give concerts at Tehran’s Niavaran Cultural Historical Complex on August 28 and 29.
- The (almost) fantastic four - Globe and Mail
The (almost) fantastic fourGlobe and Mail, Canada - 39 minutes agoThese unifying traits can be general ("four new poetry books" seems to work fairly well) or specific ("three new books about Canadians in the Great War" ...
- The Facts in the Case of the Departure of Miss Finch - North Coast Journal
The Facts in the Case of the Departure of Miss FinchNorth Coast Journal, CA - 9 minutes agoGaiman has developed a reputation both as a writer of comics and of prose fiction. His latest work, The Facts in the Case of the Departure of Miss Finch, ...
- Plato's Greek Taverna , Ponsonby Rd - New Zealand Herald
Greek cuisine gets a bad rap. AA Gill reckons it's "unremittingly ghastly. Greek food is best eaten drunk, but even that they don't make easy". Which may be unfair: when you've spent a couple of milennia working out democracy, philosophy, drama ...
- Get to Hilton's five-star festival - Tonight South Africa
Firstly there's that long, expensive trek to get there and then it's usually freezing … As wonderful as the Grahamstown Festival is, it is beyond the pocket of many, hence the Witness Hilton Arts Festival, a short trip up the N2 and held on the ...
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