Most recent
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17 Aug 2014:
From poetry to provocation, on film and in person, catch up with the highlights of a packed and wide-ranging weekend
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13 Aug 2014: George RR Martin came back, Jackie Kay and Will Self delighted their crowds and Richard Dawkins talked about his childhood ... A lot can happen in two days at the international book festival
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16 Jul 2014:
Why is a robot writing poetry in a shopping centre in Milton Keynes? It's all about Jackie Kay finding her birth mother – and losing her to dementia. Nell Frizzell reports
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2 Jul 2014:
Global reach of experts' new selection ranges over last 50 years, from Scotland to Saudi Arabia, Korea to Kurdistan
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Interactive,
26 Mar 2014:
Writers including Alan Bennett, Carol Ann Duffy and Jeffrey Archer declare support for campaign by Howard League for Penal Reform
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27 Feb 2014:
Alison Flood: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Jackie Kay and Helon Habila among those criticising government for 'Nazi' politics of hate
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24 Nov 2013:
Writers, Observer critics and others tell us their favourite reads of 2013 – and what they hope to find under the tree
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26 Oct 2013:
Jackie Kay writes "Bantam" in response to Siegfried Sassoon's "Survivors"
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9 May 2013:
Jo Shapcott, Jackie Kay, Don Paterson and seven other poets join laureate's Thresholds project to find poetry in subjects ranging from the first bird to slavery
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Audio
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5 Apr 2013:
Jackie Kay pays tribute to the late Chinua Achebe, and Mohsin Hamid and Jim Crace join us to talk about their new political novels
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Audio
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1 Mar 2013:
Jackie Kay rounds off our series of poets choosing their favourite poems with verses from Edwin Morgan's Love and a Life
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21 Aug 2012:
Novelist says anti-piracy measures mooted for literature are 'disingenuous, hypocritical, ineffectual' and 'artistically philistine'
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12 Aug 2012:
David Hockney fumed at the opening, Gillian Wearing captured Bolt, and Susan Philipsz mashed up some anthems . . . but what else happened when we challenged artists to respond to the Games?
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8 Aug 2012:
Scottish poet Jackie Kay draws inspiration from Team GB's highs and lows in the triathlon, javelin and cycling to create three short poems that capture the spirit of the Games
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Video
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8 Aug 2012:
Scottish poet Jackie Kay reads out three short poems she wrote after being inspired by Team GB's recent performances in the javelin, triathlon and cycling. She follows the highs and lows of Goldie Sayers, the Brownlee brothers and Victoria Pendleton
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