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- Waiter is longlisted for £60,000 book prize (The Herald)
A 27-year-old waiter has been longlisted for a £60,000 book prize for his first novel. Yorkshire-born Ross Raisin, who lives in London, is up for the Dylan Thomas Prize for God's Own Country, which he wrote while working as a waiter.
- Axe victim escaped 'rage' of Sydney (Guyra Argus)
The policewoman whose young children were killed in an axe murder in Cowra yesterday was glad to have escaped the "rage" of Sydney, and dreamt of writing plays and poems and playing the saxophone.
- Hayes proves he's still got soul - Chicago Tribune
Isaac Hayes ' performance at a crowded Ravinia on Friday didn't get off to a promising start. The veteran soul man, sporting his trademark shaved head and dark sunglasses, initially appeared uninterested in the proceedings. It didn't help that the ...
- Derek Jarman, Glitterbox - GreenCine
GreenCineDerek Jarman, GlitterboxGreenCine, CA - 9 hours agoActors, including Tilda Swinton and John Quentin, also read from Jarman's journals and poetry. Writer/director Derek Jarman injects his patented iconoclasm ...
- Dolman Best Travel Book Award 2008 - Telegraph.co.uk
Telegraph.co.ukDolman Best Travel Book Award 2008Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 55 minutes agoThe Dolman Best Travel Book Award 2008 was won last night by John Lucas, a former poetry editor of New Statesman, for 92 Acharnon Street (Eland), ...
- Push for 'dream team' accelerates; Will Obama pick Clinton as ... - The Canadian Press
Push for 'dream team' accelerates; Will Obama pick Clinton as ...The Canadian Press, WASHINGTON - 2 hours agoAn African-American and a woman, inspiration and experience, poetry and policy - all in one package. His popularity among blacks, the young and ...
- William Wordsworth - guardian.co.uk
William Wordsworthguardian.co.uk, UK - 1 hour agoHe pioneered the use of ordinary speech in poetry and, going against the fashion for heroic couplets, experimented with various stanza forms and irregular ...
- Why this Lord's test is bound to become a classic - Hampstead and Highgate Express
Hampstead and Highgate ExpressWhy this Lord's test is bound to become a classicHampstead and Highgate Express, UK - 14 hours agoAnn's father was a devoted MCC member for many years until his death, and their son Jonny was coached at the indoor Cricket School while a pupil at nearby ...
- Bitch Session - Washington Blade
Bitch SessionWashington Blade, DC - 2 hours agoButt ugly, right off the ranch and quoting bad poetry. Some clueless guy actually titled his post “Desperately Seeking Susan.” Ha! ...
- 05-02-08 EUR ALL ON ONE PAGE - Eurweb.com
05-02-08 EUR ALL ON ONE PAGEEurweb.com, CA - May 2, 2008The tabloid claims to have gotten the news from a family member named Ann Davis, who said the episode took place a few days before the teen's 15th birthday ...
- Words in Conflict: Poetry from Israel and the Palestinian Territories (The Online NewsHour)
Poets in the Middle East are often held in high regard, and many achieve a level of celebrity and authority not common in the West. In recognition of Israel's 60th anniversary, Jeffrey Brown offers an encore report on the lives of Israeli and Palestinian poets.
- You Don’t Mess With the Racism (Middle East Online)
What we are to believe by watching this film is that if everyone would just stop ‘hating’, Israelis and Palestinians could effortlessly live together in harmony.
- The end of an era - Bay Windows
The end of an eraBay Windows, MA - 10 minutes agoMcLee, who is clergy, African American, always questioned by the church as to what he’s doing, and you think about the risk that he’s taking - and it’s not ...
- Second time around (The Australian)
CAPRI and I have a history, an account that has long needed to be settled, like a southern Italian vendetta. It all began nine years ago, when I was travelling with my pregnant wife, Lesley, to research a book about tourists from ancient Rome, Route 66AD.
- Life, in so many words (Yakima Herald-Republic)
I'm looking at this screen blankly. Much in the way I've looked at variant versions of this same buzzing white screen during the past four years. I look at it, waiting for something worth reading to wind its way out of some place between my ears and behind my eyes.
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