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Poems of Places 91 comment

Ben Friedlander wrote 1 month ago: From Poems of Places, vol. 22, Asia 2 (Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1878), edited by Henry … more →

Tags: Forgotten Poems, Longfellow, Poems of Places, Afghanistan, Fruit, fruitility, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Kabul, Nicholas Michell

PEN/Pinter Prize Event 14 October 2009 at British Library

bridgereadings wrote 1 month ago: The first PEN/Pinter Prize will be awarded on 14th October 2009 to the poet and playwright Tony Harr … more →

Tags: Awards, Events, Biritish Library, Faber, pen

Tempi antichi

qubriq wrote 1 month ago: The Curtain Catullus Frontiers oppress me… I want to wander as much as I like… to talk, … more →

Tags: Cadere dal pero, I pensieri degli altri, Poesía, Guerra Fredda, oscuro scrutare, stalin ricoperto di liquido seminale

An Exploration of Deleuze and Guattari's Concept of the Rhizome

A.R. Duckworth wrote 1 month ago: The rhizome is a philosophical concept advanced by Giles Deleuze and Felix Guattari in A Thousand Pl … more →

Tags: cultural studies, Philosophy, Deleuze and Guattari, Nomad Thinking, Poetry, postmodern, Rhizome, Uz & Them

Theatre: Trackers of Oxyrhynchus

neandellus wrote 2 months ago: Student theatre is a consistent delight to me. Of course we all know, or should know, that student t … more →

Tags: Review, SPARK, Student Theatre, Omniprop Productions, Mudfest, Trackers of Oxyrhyncus, university of melbourne, Helen Slaney, Sophocles

He's still here5 comments

Marius Ostrowski wrote 5 months ago: I can’t quite remember the first time I heard the name ‘Arthur Scargill‘, but as l … more →

Tags: News & Current Affairs, Politics, Conservatives, Labour, Margaret Thatcher, Socialism, uk politics, Federalism, european elections

Attention Span - Benjamin Friedlander3 comments

Steve Evans wrote 6 months ago: Anne Boyer | Art Is War | Mitzvah | 2008 I’m not a believer in the Holy Spirit, but the fact t … more →

Tags: Attention Span 2008, Commented list, George Oppen, Susan Howe, Sharon Mesmer, anne boyer, mark scroggins, Peter Culley, Peter Cole (ed. and trans.)

A Sign of the Aging Process (and Other Works of the Devil)

LDR wrote 6 months ago: Two and a half years is hardly a yardstick to measure the distance between here and the end of the r … more →

Tags: obituary, Dennis Brown, derek jarman, James Joyce, uh?!

The Bedbug

LDR wrote 8 months ago: Comrade, with your finger on the playback switch, listen carefully to each love moan, and enter in t … more →

Tags: Quotes

Clubs unite to protest anti-bikie laws

goldiron wrote 8 months ago: Clubs unite to protest anti-bikie laws Bikie clubs better known for being at war will unite this wee … more →

Tags: biker, Bikers, Government, motorcycle, Motorcycles, Motorcycling, Motorcyclist, motorcyclists, Political Interest

Address Books

billgreenwell wrote 10 months ago: Of all the items I lug around with me – and I am a real lugger, I can’t be without all k … more →

Tags: Address Book, Poem, old phone number

Trophies1 comment

purlharbor wrote 10 months ago: This is an outrage! I’m developing an idea for a new knitting project that’s caught my f … more →

Tags: knitting, Buffalo, Elephant, hunting trophy, knitted toys, taxidermy, The Mighty Boosh

For as in Troëzen once: Racine and the nimble-toed Richard Wilbur

mvlturner wrote 1 year ago: If you should sail south-east from Aegina, perhaps seeking Hydra, Leonard Cohen’s island, stil … more →

Tags: Reviews of minds and authors, Robert Lowell, Racine, Richard Wilbur, Robert Fagles, Robert Fitzgerald, Gilbert Murray, Aeschylus, Euripedes

English essay - Monty Python, Tony Harrison, language and class3 comments

soundaffects wrote 1 year ago: CONSIDER HOW AND TO WHAT EFFECT LANGUAGE IS USED AS A FORM OF POWER Of all the socio-political issue … more →

Tags: English, Politics, Uni work, Britain, Class, Dennis, four Yorkshiremen, Holy Grail, language

"Fram" review: or, Much Ado About a Sleeping Bag - The National Theatre3 comments

webcowgirl wrote 1 year ago: Once upon a spring night dreary, after work, my friends so weary, All of us in line awaiting the gra … more →

Tags: at least it was better than Gone with the Wind the Musi, fram, Fram review, if Tony Harrison can get away with doggerel so can I, Is that Poe spinning in his grave, National Theater, National Theatre, no this is not a very elaborate joke, please don't ever do this again

"Fram" review preview - and notes on Wayne Macgregor8 comments

webcowgirl wrote 1 year ago: Fram: in short, no. I can see why they were offering free beer on top of 10 pound tickets to get peo … more →

Tags: fram, Fram review, National Theater, no this is not a very elaborate joke, two men and one sleeping bag, Wayne Macgregor

Review - Fram at the National Theatre20 comments

Phil (a west end whinger) wrote 1 year ago: All credit to the National: they never are averse To staging something radical and this play is in v … more →

Tags: theatre, Review, London, National Theatre, Entertainment, Jasper Britton, fram, Sian Thomas, Jeff Rawle

Vs1 comment

Neil wrote 1 year ago: About every six months, an arts editor on one of our more ’serious’ newspapers decides i … more →

Tags: Distractions, Poetry, V


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