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Iranian Hostage Crisis Myths Debunked in New Novel
Posted by wordsmithwannabe on Wednesday, June 12, 2013 (07:15:00)
Poetry News: ... . In addition to many legal publications, she has published short stories and poems in various literary magazines and poetry anthologies. She is the author of the book of poetry A Piece of Heaven and the novel Two Weddings.
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Book review: Alexander Wilson by Edward Burtt and William Davis Jr
Posted by fogglethorpe on Tuesday, June 11, 2013 (15:00:00)
Wilson was also a poet influenced by Burns, and while still in Scotland his poetry led him into conflict with the authorities after he was accused of stoking unrest in the mills. Yet it is as the author of American Ornithology – a nine-volume work that aimed to list every species in the US – that Wilson will be remembered..
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REVIEW: "The More You Ignore Me" by Travis Nichols
Posted by fogglethorpe on Monday, June 10, 2013 (16:00:00)
Travis Nichols’ second novel takes the form of an obsessive online rant by a man whose extended unwelcome comments have led him to be banned from Charlico.com..
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Book Review : The Thought of Faiz by Dr Nisar Turabi
Posted by fogglethorpe on Monday, June 10, 2013 (15:40:00)
Dr Nisar Turabi is a well-known poet, educationist and critic. It was very kind of him to call on me last day along with Professor Mohammad Safdar and Professor Abbas Hussain. He presented me his latest Urdu book titled Fikr-e-Faiz (The Thought of Faiz) compiled by him..
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Finches of Mars by Brian Aldiss - review
Posted by fogglethorpe on Friday, June 07, 2013 (15:55:00)
So what sort of a swan song does Finches of Mars represent? The short answer is: an odd one, although the oddness isn't immediately obvious from its premise, that familiar SF trope of Martian colonisation..
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UK- REVIEW: Quercus
Posted by fogglethorpe on Thursday, June 06, 2013 (14:14:27)
AN unusual trio, formed, as Iain Ballamy’s website says, as “three unique musicians converge to create an evocative mixture of words and music, encompassing jazz, folk and traditional songs in contemporary settings”..
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Donald Justice's 'Collected Poems' Offer Refuge From The Rain
Posted by fogglethorpe on Sunday, June 02, 2013 (13:28:20)
Donald Justice's Collected Poems, published less than two weeks after his death, is a slender volume for a life's work. At around 300 pages, it could easily be overlooked on a shelf beside the collected work of other poets..
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'Dear Elizabeth' review: Poetry in letters
Posted by fogglethorpe on Sunday, June 02, 2013 (04:57:12)
Poetry News: Sarah Ruhl and Les Waters return to Berkeley Rep with Dear Elizabeth, which stars Mary Beth Fisher and Tom Nelis as esteemed poets and lifelong friends Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell.
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Vancouver, BC - 'Good Timber' show a cut above the rest
Posted by wordsmithwannabe on Wednesday, May 01, 2013 (07:15:00)
Poetry News: ... the width and breadth of the province's storied history in the forest. Desprez utilized a compilation of logging camp poetry by Robert E. Swanson for the show's songs. Some of the poems, describing life in the woods, came with names like The Cat ...
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Professor Borges: A Course on English Literature by Jorge Luis Borges - review
Posted by wordsmithwannabe on Friday, May 31, 2013 (07:30:00)
Poetry News: ... interjection. "But this poem was written with so much intensity that it is one of the great poems of English poetry." "And this is, undoubtedly, astonishing." Whatever effect such straightforwardness had in person (and we should remember Borges was ...
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Review: Sarah Ruhl's 'Dear Elizabeth' lovingly captures a literary romance
Posted by wordsmithwannabe on Friday, May 31, 2013 (07:00:00)
Poetry News: ... which runs through July 7 at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. At its best, the play captures both the enchantment of poetry and the alienation of reality in equal measure. Ruhl and Waters have an affinity for stage pictures that radiate quiet longing ...
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Italo Calvino: Letters, 1941-1985 - review
Posted by fogglethorpe on Thursday, May 30, 2013 (15:00:00)
Italo Calvino, the Italian arch-fabulist, is perhaps best known for his 1950s trilogy, Our Ancestors, with its surreal tales of a cloven viscount, a nonexistent knight and a baron in the trees..
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Guess Who Just Got Back Today?
Posted by wordsmithwannabe on Wednesday, May 29, 2013 (07:00:00)
Poetry News: ... to his gifts, no doubt, and in his lifetime his lyrics were solemnly published in two slim volumes - like, you know, poetry - but the average reader, when she thinks of Philip at all, thinks of him as the fellow who sings that song about people ...
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Fanfarlo by Charles Baudelaire - review
Posted by fogglethorpe on Monday, May 27, 2013 (16:00:00)
Baudelaire's autobiographical novella paints an intriguing picture of himself as a young dandy..
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"Reviews of Popular Fiction" Released to Bookstores
Posted by fogglethorpe on Monday, May 27, 2013 (15:35:00)
This issue includes eight highly critical and mostly negative reviews of popular fiction (Twilight, Wallander, Percy Jackson, The Last Boyfriend, “The Island of Doctor Moreau,” You Have to Kiss a Lot of Frogs, The Troubled Man: A Kurt Wallander Novel, The Flower and the Flame, and The Draco Tavern). Readers who have been disappointed with popular fiction before should read these..
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Pink Mist by Owen Sheers - review
Posted by fogglethorpe on Monday, May 27, 2013 (15:00:00)
Pink Mist is a tremendous book. It feels huge, engulfing, devastating, although only 87 pages long. When I finished it, what I felt most strongly was that it should be studied at school alongside the ubiquitous Wilfred Owen. It should be read and – it's a verse drama – performed, as it was earlier this year on Radio 4..
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In Ma Jian's new novel, a family floats through a turbulent China
Posted by fogglethorpe on Sunday, May 26, 2013 (16:00:00)
When novelist Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize last year, it brought scrutiny not to Mo Yan’s novels or to Chinese literature, but to politics. As the Nobel debate raged, the books themselves – his and those of his fellow Chinese novelists – went almost unmentioned..
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Bibliofiles: Book reviews by Ruth Freeman
Posted by wordsmithwannabe on Sunday, May 26, 2013 (07:00:00)
Poetry News: ... memorizer, but that doesn't detract from the selection. Peruse your old favorites and be introduced to contemporary poetry; both are well represented. "Once Upon a Flock, Life with My Soulful Chickens" by Lauren Scheuer is delightful. The author's ...
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Book Review: Eve Ensler: 'In the Body of the World'
Posted by fogglethorpe on Friday, May 24, 2013 (15:00:00)
This memoir is written in brief chapters called "scans", as Ensler scrutinizes several moments from her illness and the process of building City of Joy -- a UNICEF-supported place for female victims of gender violence in the Congo. Ensler wrote the "scans" while submitting her body to CAT scans..
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Chapter Forty of An Ecstatic Loneliness: The Marxist Priest Of Nixon In China
Posted by fogglethorpe on Tuesday, May 21, 2013 (16:00:00)
I began listening to the John Adams opera, Nixon In China, for the third time … and … well … after listening to Walter Cronkite's introduction again, I stopped shortly after the first scene.
Knowing there was, at no point in the score, a moment of un-hammered beauty?!
I stopped listening..
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Reviewed: The Serpent's Promise: the Bible Retold as Science by Steve Jones
Posted by fogglethorpe on Saturday, May 18, 2013 (16:00:00)
The Bible was not, as he claims, “a handbook to help comprehend the world”. Genesis is not “the world’s first biology textbook”. To criticise the opening line of Psalm 19 (“The heavens declare the glory of the Lord”) for “empty logic” is a strangely wooden way of reading poetry..
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Storytelling poetry in song
Posted by fogglethorpe on Friday, May 17, 2013 (15:00:00)
I think the purpose of music is often lost with us. Hooks and beats often overpower a meaningful message. Unfortunately for most, their song and their words just won't reach the audience they deserve. So, I'm going to shine a light on Howe Gelb, an honest, hardworking folk singer you should know about..
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Dan Brown's Inferno: a tall writer offers his historic review
Posted by fogglethorpe on Wednesday, May 15, 2013 (14:50:00)
The tall writer Steven Poole opened the wooden door of the strong house and peered at the small figure on the stone doorstep. It was a boy. Cradled in his palms the boy nervously proffered a startling object. It was the new book by the famous novelist Dan Brown..
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Album Review: Daft Punk- Random Access Memories
Posted by fogglethorpe on Wednesday, May 15, 2013 (02:14:39)
Daft Punk delivers its first official album, Random Access Memories, in eight years after the Grammy award-winning electronic duo fanned the flames with endless teasers suggesting a return to music..
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