Woman's Weekly

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Fancy discovering poetry? Early Wordsworth is a great place to start – try Lyrical Ballads (written with Samuel Taylor Coleridge). Easy to ridicule for his middle-class sensibility, but great fun to read and massively better than his reputation sugg

The Millions

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For all their ubiquity in texts and emails, exclamation marks call attention toward themselves in poems: they stand straight up. The post A Meditation on Exclamation Marks in Contemporary Poetry (!) appeared first on The Millions.

Fairlady

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Middelvlei Momberg Pinotage 2018 (R400) is so delicious it’s totally worth the price. Made to celebrate the 100 years that the Momberg family have been on the farm, it’s smooth and full of ripe fruit flavours – abit like drinking John Keats’s ode ‘To

NPR

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Poet Lee Bennett Hopkins edited the new children's book, in which poets reflect on paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Rather than describing the painting, it's what they feel," he says.

Literary Hub

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For this next installment in a series of interviews with contemporary poets, Peter Mishler interviews Jenny Johnson. Jenny Johnson’s poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry 2012, New England Review, Troubling the Line: Trans & Genderqueer Poe

Dance Australia

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Most of us learn best in a collaborative environment with input and inspiration from multiple sources. So Expressions Dance Company wanted to bring together some of the best dancers from around Australia for its 2020 EDC Contemporary Dance Intensives

Literary Hub

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In April 1948, Wallace Stevens received a letter from a nun. Her name was Sister Mary Bernetta Quinn, and she was completing her PhD at the University of Wisconsin. It was their first correspondence, and she’d enclosed some notes on his poetry, for w

Literary Hub

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The style guides say: keep your sentences short. Write cleanly, cut as many words as you can, and don’t overburden your reader’s short-term memory by delaying the arrival of the full stop. But sometimes a sentence just needs to be long. The world res

Literary Hub

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“Perhaps one source of malaise is my non-writing,” Philip Larkin complained in a 1971 letter. “I feel very much that my twenty or so poems aren’t very good, & need good ones, all of The Whitsun Weddings standing, to buck them up, only I can’t get aro

Chat

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University College, Oxford, has a room dedicated to a memorial to which poet, despite having expelled them as a student? The prize answer is the one missing from the grid. ANGELOU ARMITAGE BURNS BYRON DUFFY ELIOT KEATS KIPLING LARKIN MILTON PLATH POP

Literary Hub

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Nineteen years old, I sat at a long table in a small room, a poem in front of me. “Harry Ploughman” by Gerard Manley Hopkins felt impenetrable. A jumble of syntax. Frequent semicolons and dashes choked my reading. While I listened to my professor spe

Country Life

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1795 Born in Moorgate, London, on October 31 1816 Publication of first poem, O Solitude. Despite qualifying as a licensed apothecary, abandons his studies to become a surgeon and turns to poetry 1817 First volume, Poems, is published to scornful re

Country Life

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Aided by its setting, only seconds away from the Heath the poet so loved, Keats House Museum is among the most affecting of the nation's literary shrines. Keats lived there from 1818–20, when it was known as Wentworth Place, and the Regency villa (mo

The American Poetry Review

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Kaveh Akbar and Jane Hirshfield have been in a running e-mail conversation since January 2016, when Akbar first contacted Hirshfield about doing an interview in his Divedapper series, before his first, widely acclaimed book, Calling a Wolf a Wolf (Al

Literary Hub

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We asked 48 poets and writers to recommend one book of poetry they loved in 2017. Their choices are below…  The Respondents · Damiano Abeni · Kaveh Akbar · Dan Beachy-Quick · Dodie Bellamy · Charles Bernstein · Anselm Berrigan · Jonah Bokaer · Lee An

The Christian Science Monitor

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Shared reading memories I was enchanted by Robert Klose’s Sept. 4 Home Forum essay, “How I became a reader of books.” It brought back memories of my more than threescore years of reading, even as a small child. Having experienced the pleasure of boo

Opera Canada

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There are clusters of Canadian musician-expats in just about all of Germany’s major cities today. The young Torontoborn mezzo-soprano Marta Herman moved away right after university and immediately forged a stable career in the German fest system. She

Dance Australia

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INDEPENDENT choreographer Rachel Arianne Ogle is presenting consecutive seasons in Perth this June, with a remount of her 2014 work precipice, followed by its sequel i have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night, which had its debut at

The Australian Women's Weekly

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• FEBRUARY 28 Take in stunning illuminations, indulge at the Night Noodle Markets and rise with the sun for a hot air balloon display as Canberra celebrates its annual Enlighten Festival (5).enlightencanberra.com  • FEBRUARY 28 Explore European influ

Writer's Digest

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The best beginnings toss readers into the whirlwind that is going to be your story right as the action begins, giving them no choice but to read further. The best endings stick with readers for years after they’ve closed the book. WD editors got toge

Audio Technology

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APRA AMCOS’s SongHubs is a global program. As well as Australia’s capital cities, invitees can find themselves flying across oceans to hubs like LA, Nashville and London, or India, Toronto, and the latest addition, Brazil. Milly Petriella, APRA AMCOS

Philippine Tatler Traveller

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Savoie Mont Blanc January 12-23, 2019 Join thousands of spectators in the French and Swiss Alps to witness one of the most challenging sled dog races in the world. Taking place over 12 days and 400 kilometres at different altitudes, 25 of the best mu

Philippine Tatler

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Trinity the Tuck and Monet X Change, double-crowned drag queens from the queer reality show RuPaul’s Drag Race All Star 4, will be in the country for a two-woman one-night-only show, hosted by online sensation Pangina Heals. At XYLO at The Palace, Ta

Hong Kong Tatler

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The Hong Kong Philharmonic under the baton of Benjamin Northey provides live orchestral accompaniment for screenings of Star Wars IV: A New Hope and Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back. At the Cultural Centre until July 6. urbtix.hk Local and overse

Woman

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by Polly Crosby (£12.99, HarperCollins, HB) Romilly’s eccentric father is struggling with early-onset dementia. On finding fame with a series of children’s books starring his daughter, readers become convinced that his beautiful illustrations contain

Cricket Magazine

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Pudding loved reading about all the great performers in this issue of Cricket—from Farley the dog, to ballet great Jacques D’Amboise, to the humble street musician in “Farewell.” For this month’s contest, she’s staging dramatic readings in Cricket Co

Metal Hammer UK

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PROSTHETIC Switzerland’s sonic adventurers reach a scintillating new peak SCHAMMASCH MASTERMIND C.S.R’S vision for the band has always been of biblical proportions, presenting their high-concept, Babylonian black metal in ever more sonically and visu

High Times

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› On his new solo LP, Panda Bear (Noah Lennox) ditches overt electronic elements for acoustic piquancy. Sound effects are prevalent; opener “Dolphin” establishes the album’s aquatic theme with gentle crooning between literal drops of water. The soulf

Country Life

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• John Clare I love the little pond to mark at spring • George Orwell Some Thoughts on the Common Toad • William Shakespeare Sonnet 98 • Rev Gilbert White The Naturalist’s Journal, February–May, 1780 • Richard Jefferies Hours of Spring • Robert Brown

NPR

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The London rapper, poet and spoken word artist rips your heart out, offers an assessment, and then returns it with the tools to determine what needs to be done with it.