Super Furry Animals’ front man Gruff Rhys and Julian Cope will be among the line-up at a new festival celebrating Wales’ literature and landscape.

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Please Don and #39;t Stop The Music scoops the annual Romantic Novel of the Year award

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A playwright and her husband who were facing deportation, win an Asylum and Immigration Tribunal case.

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An Aberdeen schoolboy is set to appear in the final of a BBC Shakespeare performance competition on television this weekend.

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New laws to cut the size of the board which runs the National Library of Scotland are passed by MSPs, as part of wider reforms.

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AN ARTIST who popularised the modern-day limerick is the latest to be person honoured with a green plaque in Westminster.

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Author Carlos Fuentes, who played a dominant role in Latin America and #39;s novel-writing boom by delving into the failed ideals of the Mexican revolution, died Tuesday in a Mexico City hospital. He was 83.

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Felicity Kendal visits Indian prisoners who perform Shakespeare, and discovers the impact the playwright has had on Indian culture.

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Author Carlos Fuentes, who played a dominant role in Latin America and #39;s novel-writing boom by delving into the failed ideals of the Mexican revolution, died Tuesday in a Mexico City hospital. He was 83.

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Modern authors are stylistically influenced by their contemporaries rather than writers from the 18th and 19th centuries, according to word-frequency study of classic literature Harold Bloom famously dubbed it the and #34;anxiety of influence and #34; (paywall) : the effect which the literary canon has on writers. Less today than it did in the past, according to a mathematical study which analysed thousands of …

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The fundamentals of life and death in verse – we learn how poetry can heal patients and doctors alike

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Author Jeanette Winterson is to become a professor of creative writing at the University of Manchester.

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A new research project analyses the influence of literature on scientists and #39; pursuits

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The History of Cardenio, a lost Shakespeare play, has been painstakingly restored by American Shakespeare scholar Gary Taylor. It was recently performed for the first time.

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Has a new play by Shakespeare been given new life’

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A BLOOD-THIRSTY production of William Shakespeare classic Macbeth takes the stage at a Welwyn Garden City theatre later this week.

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Links between our landscape and literature

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Two US hip-hop artists visit a school in Birmingham to perform a rap version of one of Shakespeare and #39;s tragedies.

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Two US hip-hop artists perform a rap version of a Shakespeare tragedy at a Birmingham school

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Maurice Sendak, the US author of the best-selling children and #39;s book Where the Wild Things Are, dies aged 83.

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The small coastal hamlet of Shingle Street in Suffolk (England), which is home to a total of just 25 houses, has been delivered into the modern digital age after a local campaign (Wilford Bridge Broadband Project) succeeded in getting Buzcom to deploy its superfast wireless (wifi) broadband service (FibreWiFi) across the area. The project, which [...]

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One of the world’s leading authorities on the work of Charles Dickens is planning to establish the first Dickens Fellowship in Scotland.

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This city, long thought too tough, is suddenly looking for solace and solutions in the art of arranging language through image, metaphor and music to capture the heart and #39;s inner song.

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A BLOOD-THIRSTY production of William Shakespeare classic Macbeth takes the stage at a Welwyn Garden City theatre later this week.

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Northern Ireland has the lowest level of library users in the UK, according to a new survey carried out on behalf of the Carnegie UK Trust

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Public library services need to adjust and develop to and #34;a changing world and #34; in order to keep attracting visitors, a charity warns.

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By Sue Blundell Charles Dickens is a Hero for many people, but for some time now it’s been difficult to picture him as a Saint. As a married man with a large family, Dickens found time to enjoy a long-term … Continue reading → Read more and #62;

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LONDON — A group of researchers are preparing to release an anthology of Taliban poetry, something they hope will help English-speakers better understand the men who and #39;ve waged more than a decade of war against NATO-led forces in Afghanistan.

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The Brevard County Public Library said it viewed the erotic trilogy as pornographic and not suitable for public circulation.

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What is the best year in history for literature’ Sarah Churchwell, professor of American Literature at the University of East Anglia, and John Sutherland, emeritus professor of Modern English Literature at UCL, discuss the question.

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Matching John Keats and #39;s and #34;When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be and #34; with a Magazine article about how scientists are experimenting with using psychedelic drugs to ease terminally ill patients and #39; fear of death.

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Poetry is an art form that reaches into one and #39;s very being, and toys with very sensitive emotions. I believe that is why poems convey certain feelings and bring back certain memories.

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Less than a mile from where William Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre was built in 1599, sits 28-year-old Kingslee Daley, known professionally as award-winning British rapper Akala.

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A DISABLED youngster with a talent for poetry and a teenage singing sensation have been honoured at the Young Scot Awards.

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Culture committee report into phone hacking turned out to be the most courteous pub brawl in history The culture committee launched its report on phone hacking on Tuesday. Tories to the left, Labour to the right. It turned into the most courteous pub brawl in history. and #34;I bow to no one in my respect for you. Wallop! and #34; and #34;Come outside and say that again – though I do insist that you have every right …

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A SCOTTISH poet who took his own life and left his benefit withdrawal notice as a “suicide note” was held up as a warning of the potential impact of controversial UK welfare reforms.

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Kentucky Derby celebrations, a ramp festival, a food book fair and more events this week.

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Digital book sales have gone up 54% in the past year to £243m but total book sales have fallen by 2%.

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Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy is to write her own versions of age-old fairytales for a new stage show this Christmas.

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A federal judge on Monday dismissed a civil lawsuit against author Greg Mortenson, calling claims and #34;flimsy and speculative and #34; that the humanitarian and his publisher lied in his best-selling and #34;Three…

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Intensely combative from her earliest years, Leila Berg, who has died aged 94, galvanised attitudes towards young readers in the UK.

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CRIME author Bernard O’Mahoney today reveals how his penpal letters helped snare some of the North’s most notorious child killers.

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CRIME author Bernard O’Mahoney today reveals how his penpal letters helped snare some of the North’s most notorious child killers.

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Globe to Globe, a festival from London and #39;s Globe Theater, showcases 37 of Shakespeare and #39;s plays performed in a different language by 37 international companies.

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Jason Grunebaum translates modern Hindi fiction for English readers, to bridge the cultural divide and bring great writers to English-speaking shores.

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A CACHE of previously unseen passionate poems and intimate letters written by the Orkney poet George Mackay Brown to his young muse will be auctioned in Edinburgh next week.

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Matt Smith, star of the BBC and #39;s Doctor Who, is to take part in a Disney TV show aimed at introducing poetry to young audiences.

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Epic Theatre Ensemble presents William Shakespeare and #39;s brutal and darkly funny exploration of the banality of evil.

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Mr. Callenbach’s tale of an awakening paradise in the Pacific Northwest evoked a devoted cult following as a harbinger of the environmental movement.

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Did Shakespeare Have a Co-Writer’

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