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Poet's biography of Burns wins Saltire award
Glasgow :: United Kingdom | about 13 hours ago
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St Andrews academic Robert Crawford told a friend he was thinking of writing a biography about Robert Burns, back came the reply: "That'll be the world's least necessary book." Yesterday, however, his biography, The Bard, beat all others to be named this...
Tags: United Kingdom, Glasgow, Robert Burns, Scotland, Scottish diaspora, Scottish Government, Bard, Saltire Awards, Scottish literature, Homecoming Scotland, Human Interest, Entertainment Culture
Why I never became a poet | Jonathan Jones
London :: United Kingdom | about 22 hours ago
Credibility So, the Turner prize award is coming up, and it will be presented by the poet laureate...Perhaps most teenagers want to be poets, or at least songwriters, but if you're Welsh it's different...Writing poetry , in other words, seemed a very natural thing...
Tags: Poetry Wales, United Kingdom, London, Romanticism, Welsh poets, Bard, Scottish literature, Cornish culture, Welsh literature, Entertainment Culture
Holiday marionette performances set
Bard :: France | 6 days ago
Credibility The Fever River Puppeteers' holiday marionette show, "Christmas Around the World," features Elf Jingle on a magical journey...Tickets are $5 for adults and $4 for children; doors open a half hour before each performance. For information, call 608-759-4425...
Tags: France, Bard, Entertainment Culture, Aquin, Environment, Santa Claus, Energy economics, Construction, Flix, Structural engineering, Energy conservation, Bridge, Advertising characters, Concrete, Waste minimisation, Human Interest, Pavements, Christian folklore, Masonry, WIS, Industrial ecology, Puppeteer, Insulated concrete form, Hazel Green, Marionette, Hazel
Modern-day bards from across Canada compete in B.C. at National Poetry Slam
Victoria :: Canada | 16 days ago
Credibility Young Canadians from across the country are converging in Victoria Saturday for a battle of words, ideas and beat. Twelve teams are duking it out for the title of National Poetry Slam champions by performing three-minute power poems. Continued Below...
Tags: poetry slam, national poetry, B.C, Canada, Victoria, Canadian Festival of Spoken Word, Performance art, Bard, Poetry, National Poetry Slam, War Conflict, Spoken word, Slam poetry, Irish literature
The Jompson Brothers at The Basement
Nashville :: ME :: USA | 18 days ago
Credibility If youve ever wondered what Chris Stapleton would sound like fronting a meaty, plugged-in rock n roll bandas opposed to a string band with bluegrass and Southern rock vying for its heartyou have your answer in The Jompson Brothers: He sounds like...
Tags: Nashville, Bard, Decibel, Swagger, Stapleton, Entertainment Culture
Shakespeare On Balloon Boy
Me Think The Sheriff Doth Protest Too Much, Nation Wants Pound Of Flesh By Robert Weller How would Shakespeare handle the Balloon Boy case. Perhaps like this. (Apologies to the Bard) Friends, countrymen and the rest of the World, lend me your iPhones......
Tags: balloon boy, hoax, William Shakespeare, alderden, hollywood, CNN, iPhone, bard
Sox capitalize on a woeful foe
Washington :: DC :: USA | 5 months ago
Credibility The Red Sox and the Nationals may represent baseball's poles this season, and last night made clear that is attributable to both execution and talent...Jason Bay and Jacoby Ellsbury, specifically - asserted their dominance and ran away with an 11-3 victory.
Tags: Boston Red Sox, Struggling Red Sox, John Smoltz, Lowell, Bard, Daisuke Matsuzaka, Jacoby Ellsbury
This Small Extravagance
London :: United Kingdom | 7 months ago
Credibility About Marlowe's exact contemporary, a man christened on April 26, 1564, as Gulielmus filius Johannes Shakspere (William, son of John Shakespeare), we know almost nothing...We cannot be sure how many plays he wrote, and neither do we know precisely when...
Tags: Bard, Yorkshire Post, John Shakespeare, outdoor plays, plays season
UK unveils unique Shakespeare portrait
London :: United Kingdom | 8 months ago
Credibility London's Shakespeare Birthplace Trust unveiled the Cobbe portrait -- named after the Irish family who owns the painting -- after three years of research on Monday. "The evidence that it represents Shakespeare and that is was done from life, though it...
Tags: Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, William Shakespeare, Remains of Shakespeare, Shakespeare Learning Trust, East London, Stanley Wells, Bard, real shakespeare, Irish, shakespeare portrait
Book sale 'delight' for Rowling
London :: United Kingdom | 11 months ago
Credibility All royalties will be going to help children without families, many of them with disabilities, whose voices have been unheard for many years," she said...The collection of fairytales has shifted close to 370,000 copies in its first week on sale. "I am...
Tags: charity, UK Stunt Girls, Bard, J. K. Rowling
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