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Google poetics: predicting a new world of poetry
Friday 26 July 2013
Google Instant is the sometimes illuminating, sometimes bizarre feature of the search engine that provides four predictive results as you type based on frequent searches by other users.
Japan: Hunt on for serial killer who left a haiku clue
Tuesday 23 July 2013
Man in his sixties sought after five people are killed in remote rural village
Paperback review: John Keats, By Nicholas Roe
Saturday 13 July 2013
Roe’s focus on Keats’s early life challenges many of the things we think we know about the poet, bringing to the fore instead the sudden death of his father when he was very young, his mother’s indecently hasty remarriage, and the family’s social and financial decline.
Book of the week: The Divine Comedy, By Dante, translated by Clive James
Friday 12 July 2013
A lifetime's practice of poetry equips James, as translator and interpreter, to scale this summit
TV review: The Greatest Shows on Earth, Arab World (Channel 4) was shocking, not titillating
Tuesday 02 July 2013
Something revealing turned up at the end of the preview version of last night's The Greatest Shows on Earth. It was a trailer for the programme that actually opened the series, the one about Brazil that headlined on semi-naked women. That rather suggests that there'd been a late change to the transmission order of the programmes.
Review: Shire, By Ali Smith, with images by Sarah Wood
Sunday 30 June 2013
Bewitching, at least three times over
Album: Terje Rypdal, Melodic Warrior, ECM
Saturday 29 June 2013
Norwegian guitarist Rypdal favours a rocky axe-attack that can sometimes nag, but the two superb orchestral pieces here suggest that he really needs to be seen as a composer.
Arctic Monkeys to perform John Cooper Clarke poem 'I Wanna Be Yours' at Glastonbury
Tuesday 25 June 2013
Glastonbury headliners Arctic Monkeys are to bring to life the words of a John Cooper Clarke poem which has featured in the GCSE syllabus.
Five-minute memoir: A rocky relationship sailing around the West Coast of Scotland
Saturday 22 June 2013
It was a restorative sail with a handsome captain. But then came trouble, says Alice Thompson.
Investment in Blood, By Frank Ledwidge
Friday 21 June 2013
Was it worth it? This indictment of our Afghan venture gives a crushing negative
School librarian puts the world straight on fake William Blake poem
Thursday 20 June 2013
Misattribution of verse started by students on internet is finally corrected by blogger
The Queen's Birthday Honours refuseniks: The alternative list of those who said 'thanks but no thanks'
Friday 14 June 2013
About 20 names are missing from this year’s honours list because the people concerned did not want to be on it.
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