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The Written World
13 March 2012
Olympic Coffee by devin.berg, under a Creative Commons license Ever since the fall of the Tower of Babel, language has divided as much as it has united mankind. Sport, on the other hand, is a way of bringing different nations...
‘Connecting Cultures’
12 March 2012
365_049 by Canned Muffins, under a Creative Commons licence Commonwealth Day is an annual event that covers a trans-continental community of some two billion people, often from very different backgrounds. Held in Westminster Abbey, the Commonwealth Observance is a ceremony...
Raven Mad
9 March 2012
The raven (Edgar Allan Poe) by Kevin Dooley, under a Creative Commons license
George Wyllie, Mad Professor
8 March 2012
George Wyllie belongs to a small but significant tally of Scots we might call, taking our cue from a poem Liz Lochhead wrote about him, ‘the Mad Professors’.
Let Us Count the Ways
29 February 2012
Stormy Vigil by VanKeefer, under a Creative Commons license Ah, February 29th! A leap year, therefore the one day in every four years when it is socially acceptable for a woman to propose to her man. Obviously, at the forward-thinking...
One Hundred Years of Lawrence Durrell
25 February 2012
The old Penguin Modern Poets series – along with the brilliant European series – was a real poetry education for me, just as the severe blurb suggested: ‘this series is an attempt to introduce contemporary poetry to the general...Lost for Words?
23 February 2012
Pequeña detective by etringita, under a Creative Commons license 'Night bomber pilot, just a trifle drunk … I tell you there are ghosts … somewhere between Brighton and the stars …’ These were the fragments of a poem someone asked us...
The Magic Eye moment
22 February 2012
writing in the journal by redcargurl, under a Creative Commons licence In September of this year, Salt Publishing will be releasing In Their Own Words, an anthology edited by Helen Ivory and George Szirtes, and featuring short pieces from contemporary...
Nothing but the Poem: Elizabeth Bishop
20 February 2012
Photo: Chris Scott We’ve had a beautiful problem in the last year or so: too many people wanting to come to Nothing But the Poem sessions.
Three poets: Tom Leonard, Don Paterson, William Letford
20 February 2012
tom leonard by lady in the radiator under a Creative Commons licence