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- Tribute to lost wife is the Book of the Year (icWales)
A DIARY written by one of Wales’ leading poets, chronicling life after his wife’s death in a car crash, was last night named Wales Book of the Year 2008.
- Fairy tale comes true for Bennington grad - North Adams Transcript
BENNINGTON, Vt. -- Crystal Careau pretended to teach school as a little girl growing up in Bennington. She dreamed of becoming a teacher. Then, one day, she packed away all her fake homework assignments and phony exams in a box and tucked them away ...
- Schoolboy found hanged after being banned from playing Wii games console (Daily Mirror)
A boy who was banned from playing a computer game was found hanged by his school tie in his room, an inquest heard yesterday.
- Android apocalypse - Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Morning HeraldAndroid apocalypseSydney Morning Herald, Australia - 1 hour agoHe thinks it is mildly ridiculous that some people consider humans will always be smarter than machines because machines can't write poetry or make a cup of ...
- Orchestra and Chorale Pops Concert celebrates 100 years of Leroy Anderson (Journal Inquirer)
The Manchester Symphony Orchestra and Chorale’s annual Pops concert on Saturday, June 7, at 7:30 p.m., “A Tribute to Leroy Anderson,” marks the centennial of the birth of the composer of such favorites as “Sleigh Ride” and “The Syncopated Clock.”
- Kids will love these two wonderful stories - and so will you - Concord Monitor
One day, as Kathy Brodsky walked her dog along a familiar route, she noticed a crooked pine tree. And it got her thinking. Brodsky, who lives in Manchester and works as a therapist and life coach, plays at poetry. In her first book for children, My ...
- Seeing Past the Gorgons - Nation
Peter Schjeldahl is the only currently practicing art critic whose style I envy. He can do things with words on which other critics can only look with wonder--though he sometimes does them too often or too flashily, so that reading seventy-five of ...
- Twelfth Night, Open Air Theatre Regent's Park, London - Independent
Twelfth Night, Open Air Theatre Regent's Park, LondonIndependent, UK - 4 hours ago... suavity and ease are at odds with the dreary clowning. Next season, one hopes, the Open Air will get back to basics – they are poetry, poetry, and poetry.
- So much more to Kate the Great (Sydney Morning Herald)
A new play goes beyond those rumours of bestiality to reveal the brilliance of the empress, writes Joyce Morgan.
- Poem of the week - guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.ukPoem of the weekguardian.co.uk, UK - Jul 7, 2008Despite a tough life, Elizabeth Bartlett kept her insouciance: her poetry is untidy, sardonic, feisty, dreamy. We must not forget her Elizabeth Bartlett, ...
- Shell shocked - Hertfordshire Mercury
Shell shockedHertfordshire Mercury, UK - 1 hour agoAnyone who can recite poetry from heart gets my vote! Theo Dehaney-Steven, as Penelope's money-grabbing son Noel, also delivered his lines well but often ...
- Talent contest for youngsters (Gulf Daily News)
Twenty-seven budding performers who were selected out of more than 300 hopefuls performed last night at the semi-finals of a nationwide talent contest.
- DAD. By Zoë Ball, Ron Atkinson, Martha Wainwright, Kirsty Gallacher, Dan Snow, Aeronwy Thomas, Ed Balls, Candida ... (Independent)
My dad was well-respected in the Midlands. He would get invited to everything and was extremely popular. He was also massively into sport. He was an all-round sportsman, and there was always talk of sport in our house.
- Books to travel with: The Man Who Loved China by Simon Winchester - New Scientist (subscription)
Books to travel with: The Man Who Loved China by Simon WinchesterNew Scientist (subscription), UK - 4 hours agoHowever, the west used to see it as a curiosity, an intellectual backwater: there was some nice art and some poetry worth translating, but the Chinese were ...
- Sun City authors to hold book signing - Island Packet Online
Thirty members of the Sunscribers club of Sun City Hilton Head have written and published a book of fiction, essays and poetry titled, "Everything Under the Sun." They will host a book signing and question-and-answer session from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday ...
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