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Poems for Europe: 10 national portraits in verse
18 May 2014:What happened when 10 European poets were asked to portray their home country in verse ahead of the European elections? Well, the first thing some of them did was cheat. Then they all became a little melancholic… By Ruaridh Nicoll
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21 Oct 2014: Nicholas Lezard’s paperback of the week: Rhyming ‘Minerva’s Owl’ with ‘Simon Cowell’, 15 poets have fun hauling Byron’s hero into the modern age
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17 Oct 2014:
This jaunty collection of light verse is also a conspicuous formal accomplishment By Sean O'Brien
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13 Oct 2014: Singers and orchestra rose well to the challenge of the composer’s work, more secular oratorio than song cycle, writes Rian Evans
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10 Oct 2014: The Forward prize-winning collection mingles grammatically correct English with patois to emphasise the different ways in which a place can be known. By Carrie Etter
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28 Sep 2014: Alan Bennett reveals far more of himself than he does of Hardy, Larkin, Betjeman and co in this nonetheless enjoyable anthology, writes Kate Kellaway
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21 Oct 2014: Alison Flood: The founders of the Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form are seeking a limerick for each meaning of every word in the English language by 2043. Have long have you got?
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19 Oct 2014: The acclaimed conceptual artist talks to Leah Harper about Hampstead Ponds, Mexican sculptures and the connection between raspberries and art
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18 Oct 2014: by Pascale Petit
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15 Oct 2014: Think of Dylan Thomas and you think of Milk Wood and the endless green of Carmarthenshire. But was he as much a London writer as a Welsh one? Fellow Fitzrovian Griff Rhys Jones raises a glass to the poet’s bohemian drinking days
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15 Oct 2014: Chast is first cartoonist ever to make it onto the adult nonfiction prize, while fiction shortlist stacked with newcomers
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12 Oct 2014: Poet who co-founded the creative-writing venture Arvon
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11 Oct 2014:
by Liz Berry
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7 Oct 2014: Tony Curtis writes: Dannie Abse was a steady supporter of other Welsh writers; he was, in a sense, our cultural attache in what Dylan Thomas called the "capital punishment" – London
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