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Featured Poem: The Glory by Edward Thomas

I’d like to begin the introduction to this week’s featured poem by wishing everyone a happy St. David’s Day, and…

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Featured Poem: That Music Always Round Me by Walt Whitman

I have a confession to make: music is, and always has been, my first love in life. Reading comes a…

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2010 Dylan Thomas Prize Announced

The competition is underway for the 2010 Dylan Thomas Prize, the world's top literary prize for young writers. The annual…

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Les Soeurs Anglaises: Workshops and Courses

Ever fancied learning, or brushing up on, a skill in the French sunshine? Les Soeurs Anglaises run three and five…

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Three Score and Ten: Charting lives through literature

Often you’ll hear people talk of a book as being “a book for an age” for the way it describes…

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Featured Poem: The Tiger by William Blake

By now, New Year is becoming an increasingly fading memory (and so too, it’s likely, are the resolutions you vowed…

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A Valentine’s Poem: Lovesight by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

It’s that time of year again, when love is in the air (and in the windows of card shops, perhaps…

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Henley’s ‘Invictus’ stars with Morgan Freeman

There can't be many films which would appeal to poetry lovers and rugby fans but that is what Clint Eastwood…

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Writing Course with Penelope Shuttle: ‘Word and Self’

Adrienne Rich posed the question - ' Where does poetry come from?' and offered this answer: … how we glimpse…

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Asda’s Big Read Campaign: Helping to reclassify the classics

There are some things in life that you can rely on, events and objects that stand as steadfast institutions, time…

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Featured Poem: Pleasure by Charlotte Brontë

Over the last 18 months or so, one word has figured heavily in the press, on television screens and in…

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TS Eliot Prize Winner: Philip Gross

With the Oscar nominations being annoucned later today, we know that the season of awards and prizes is fully upon…

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