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[English: General]: Poet may have last word in biggest book prize

Mar 18th, 2010

SIXTEEN Scottish writers – ranging from internationally recognised names to authors whose books have sold barely any copies – were yesterday placed in the running for Scotlan

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[English: General]: Charlie Gillett: Broadcaster and author who championed world music

Mar 18th, 2010

Over the last four decades, the radio presenter, author and music publisher Charlie Gillett was one of the most influential people in the British music industry, a feat he achieved without a national media profile and no trace of an ego. He typically downplayed the excellence of The Sound Of The City – The Rise of Rock’n'Roll – the authoritative book he first published in 1970, and one which has …

My Life In Travel: Neil Oliver, author, broadcaster and archaeological expert

[English: General]: H. M. Koutoukas, Author of Surrealist Plays, Dies at 72

Mar 18th, 2010

Mr. Koutoukas was a prolific playwright who helped create Off Off Broadway theater in the 1960s with a wildly surreal style of drama.

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[English: General]: Fiennes tackles literary classics

Mar 17th, 2010

Joseph Fiennes is to get fans’ pulses racing with literary readings in an adult version of Jackanory.

Richard Poirier, a Scholar of Literature, Dies at 83

[English: General]: Education Quandary: Is there any real value in learning poetry by heart’ Are the Conservatives right to want to bring …

Mar 17th, 2010

I love those fragments of The Waste Land and Frost At Midnight that drift around in my brain and there’s no doubt that having a whole mental poetry anthology would be handy were one ever to be taken hostage in Baghdad.

A Century of Poetry Review

[English: General]: Theatre review: East of the Sun and West of the Moon

Mar 17th, 2010

EAST OF THE SUN AND WEST OF THE MOON ** THE ROXY ART HOUSE, EDINBURGH

Theatre review: Cinderalla

[English: Shakespeare]: Singer’s Busy Day: ‘Hamlet’ and ‘South Pacific’

Mar 17th, 2010

Plantation owner by day; regal ghost by night. It’s not a pitch for a bizarre comic-book hero — it’s the Saturday schedule for David Pittsinger.

Antaramian, Cuccioli, Hickock, Saxe Tackle ‘Hamlet’ in NJ

[English: General]: Library opens after £300k revamp

Mar 17th, 2010

A Flintshire library is due to re-open following a £300,000 refurbishment to the interior.