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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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  • [English: General]: Young Adult Literature Not Just For Young Adults Anymore
    Mar 8th, 2010

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  • [English: General]: Major library to open Saturdays
    Mar 8th, 2010

    The National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth reverses a decision to close on Saturdays.

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  • [English: Shakespeare]: Tower audiences lap up drama about Shakespeare mystery
    Mar 8th, 2010

    Ancient Hoghton Tower could stage more historical dramas after the success of a play about legendary bard William Shakespeare’s rumoured stay there.

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  • [English: General]: MI5 considered playwright Brendan Behan ‘too drunken to be dangerous’
    Mar 8th, 2010

    MI5 considered Irish playwright Brendan Behan to be “too unstable and too drunken” to be dangerous, newly released files show.

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  • [English: General]: Poetry in motion: Carol Ann Duffy is going the distance
    Mar 7th, 2010

    It’s 11.45am and the Central Hall in Westminster is heaving with yakking schoolkids. Fifteen-year-olds, with iPods, notebooks and temporarily customised uniforms, file up the stairs chattering like jackdaws, as though at a hip-hop gig.

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  • [English: General]: Patrick O’Connor: Critic, author and broadcaster with particular expertise in vocal music
    Mar 7th, 2010

    The many friends who loved him knew the critic, writer and broadcaster Patrick O’Connor as a polymath repository of knowledge. His subjects ranged from music hall performers to French poster art, from cinema to ballet, and from opera to food. With a forever-youthful sparkle in his eye and a talent for friendship, he was a large cuddly bear of a man, tall and sometimes mistaken for the actor …

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  • [English: General]: Library Science
    Mar 6th, 2010

    An exploration of the world of libraries and librarians, via a tour of eccentric characters and unlikely locations.

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