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Romanian Summer Diary 4
Sunday 22nd July--The summer school runs for two stretches of nine days and this weekend is a working one. Some…

Romanian Summer Diary 3
Wednesday 18th July, The Anglo-Romanian Dream I. The summer school is in full swing and truth is in the mouths…

The Book of Hopes and Dreams
Dee Rimbaud made contact recently about The Book Of Hopes And Dreams, a charity poetry anthology, published to raise money…

Romanian Summer Diary 2
17 July 2007--‘Fresh knickers!’ was the unilateral shout heard last night in Grill 66 as exultant girls flung aside their…

Famous Poems as Limericks
Boing Boing, the self-styled "directory of wonderful things" posted a link yesterday to a collection of limericks based on famous…

Romanian Summer Diary 1
Sunday 15th July – one whole hot afternoon and several minutes neatly taken down by my friends before the start…

Recommended Reads: Poppy Shakespeare
I have just finished reading Poppy Shakespeare by Clare Allen. Set in a North London day hospital, Allen draws on…

Get Into Reading Gets Into TV
Get Into Reading's Ridgeway Library group will be appearing on BBC 4 tonight in a brand new literary show. The…

Issue 26 of The Reader magazine out now
Issue 26 highlights include: • New poetry by Connie Bensley, Angela Leighton, Howard Wright, Mark Leech, Mike Hoy, Nicola Daly…

First Annual Troubadour Poetry Prize
Angela Macmillan has drawn my attention to the first annual Troubadour Poetry Prize, judged by Helen Dunmore and David Constantine.…

Harry Potter and the Double-Edged Sword
The release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows on July 21st concludes one of the best-selling and most controversial…

The Rushdie Knighthood
Over at the Kenyon Review blog Sergei Lobanov-Rostovsky has written a provocative post reflecting on the implications of Salman Rushdie's…