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[English: General]: Google to digitise literary masterpieces
Mar 11th, 2010

The contents of Italy’s two national libraries are set to be digitised at Google’s expense and made available free on the internet.

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  • [English: General]: Mysteries of literacy
    Mar 10th, 2010

    Ros Asquith on why boys choose simpler books Ros Asquith

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  • [English: Shakespeare]: All the classroom’s a stage, as RSC helps bring Shakespeare to life
    Mar 10th, 2010

    Eleven-year-olds are to learn Shakespeare using techniques employed by RSC actors, and English teachers will be encouraged to let pupils walk around the classroom rather than reading the plays while sitting at their desks.

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  • [English: General]: Swedish newspapers unite to defend freedom of speech over Muhammad cartoons
    Mar 10th, 2010

    Three leading Swedish newspapers and the national broadcaster carried a cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad with a dog’s body after an alleged plot to murder the artist who drew it was unveiled in the Republic of Ireland.

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  • [English: Authors/Poets]: Appeal to restore Dickens’ chalet
    Mar 10th, 2010

    A £100,000 appeal is launched to save the wooden chalet in Kent in which Charles Dickens wrote Great Expectations.

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  • [English: General]: Louder Than A Bomb: Slam Poetry Festival Allows Teen Poets To Shine
    Mar 9th, 2010

    What’s Your Reaction’ Winning poet Brendon Davis at Saturday’s event.

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  • [English: Shakespeare]: Sassy Gay Friend Saves Romeo And Juliet
    Mar 9th, 2010

    We like our gay friends sassy and reasonable. And Juliet Capulet certainly could’ve used a sassy gay friend as she was about to commit suicide. He would’ve doled out blunt advice like, “I think you’re fourteen and you’re idiot.”

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  • [English: General]: Poet, 83, barred from leaving Iran
    Mar 8th, 2010

    IRANIAN authorities prevented a prominent female poet and activist in her 80s from travelling to Paris to attend an event marking International Women’s Day yesterday.

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  • [English: General]: Michael McCarthy: A literary spell of warm weather
    Mar 8th, 2010

    Spring came last week and so did its first notable event, though not in a flowering, an emerging or a singing, but in a publication: Richard Mabey published his essays. It might still be freezing outside, but getting hold of A Brush With Nature in early March was like being given an unseasonable spell of warm weather in which everything in the natural world suddenly bursts into life.

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  • [English: General]: Poetry And Ruthless Careerism: How To Become The Most Famous Poet In America Overnight
    Mar 8th, 2010

    What’s Your Reaction’ [Editor's note: This talk was originally delivered in slightly different form at the St. Mark's Poetry Project on January 25, 2010.]

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