JM Coetzee: Is this the greatest European poet of the 20th Century?
The Nobel Prize-winning novelist celebrates Zbigniew Herbert, whose defiant work proved that even the darkest times call for ...
How haunting poem was vital clue to catch baby-faced killer who shot couple after CD row in ‘worst injuries’ ever seen
FORCING the front door open, police officers took in the horrifying and bloody ‘slaughterhouse’ crime scene in front of them. Two badly injured, lifeless women’s bodies – ...
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Christy Brown's Self Portrait - inside the new RTÉ documentary
Self Portrait, his new RTÉ One documentary exploring the life and work of the Dublin-born writer, poet and artist whose life ...
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Forget Polite Verse—This Poet Wants You to Feel the Salt and Soil of Newfoundland
L ate in his career, the English poet W. H. Auden distilled the whole business of poetry into three pungent lines: “A poet’s hope: to be, / like some valley cheese, / local, b ...
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Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie: 'I had a young family – children and hard drugs don’t mix'
For Bobby Gillespie of Primal Scream, decadence was part of the day job, but soon after starting a family his priorities ...
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Letter from London: The Poet, the Leader, the Bishop, and the Post-Punk Maker
An early love of poetry kicked in after listening to Bob Dylan and reading Wilfred Owen. But there was always the Penguin ...
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The Encanto girl who wouldn’t give up writing
When I was a ninth-grader growing up in Encanto, I used to struggle with poems that just wouldn’t work out. After a whole day ...
Saturday Conversation: Bastille’s Dan Smith On His Love Of Literature
Bastille's new album, '&,' is one of the albums of the year. A literate work that harkens back to the days of The Who thematically. We spoke with Dan Smith about it.
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The Dos and Don’ts of Defending Healthy Boundaries
We all struggle with people in our lives ignoring our boundaries, and then we wonder how to maintain them and remain focused ...
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Religions to deter jingoism?
Susantha Hewa Religion is among the first ‘clothes’ all babies are made to wear not much later than they are made to wear ...
Madeleine Riffaud, who fought for Paris with French Resistance, dies at 100
Ms. Riffaud was one of the last links to the celebrated ranks of French women who joined the Resistance during World War II.
Mother watches girl find life, love, baking despite cystic fibrosis — and then time ran out
Cystic fibrosis shortened Megan Tims Phillips' life but didn't make it smaller. As her mother hoped for more time, daughter ...