Written in February 1815 when he was just nineteen years old, ‘To Hope’ is one of John Keats’s early poems. Although it is not as celebrated or as polished as his more mature work, the poem is worth sharing, so below we reproduce the text of the poem, and offer […] The post A Short…
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Friends of the graveyard and longtime listeners of the podcast will be familiar with our deep love of Michael Madsen. He’s a genre actor, a jovial mess, a poet, and one heck of a bangable babe, and in 2017 he was even the winner of our highly prestigious Whole Hog – Hogfather of the year […]
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If you are hunting a great psychological thriller, Verity is the book for you. I kept seeing it all over the bookish internet so I finally read it. It is completely worth the hype! When bestselling author Verity Crawford is injured in a tragic car accident her publisher hires struggling writer, Lowen Ashleigh, to finish […]
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Redemittel für den Beschwerdebrief Beschwerdebrief b2 Redemittel 1. Einleitung: Ich schreibe Ihnen wegen folgenden Problems: Ich möchte Sie auf folgendes Problem/ folgenden Missstand aufmerksam machen: Als ich Ihre Anzeige las, war ich sofort begeistert, deshalb habe ich mich angemeldet. Bezüglich unseres Telefonats vom… Vor zwei Wochen habe ich bei Ihnen… bestellt. Wir sind seit langer…
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every step we take ~ an unforgettable waltz ~ into the starlight —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Originally posted on Eugi’s Causerie: the fear of living days blur into nights reasons, I must validate home warm with comfort Reena’s Exploration Challenge?#132 Your Daily Word Prompt – Validate – April 24. 2020 -Eugenia featured image – lovethispic.com
Originally posted on Tao Talk: The first tale I thought of for Reena’s prompt today comes from a book I read so many years ago, “Dune,” by Frank Herbert. Youtube is a marvelous treasure-trove on any topic, so I went looking to see if I could find where someone recited the passage that has stuck…
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Rendezvous With Rama describes the exploration of a vast alien space ship. This vessel takes the form of a spinning cylinder, fifty kilometres long by twenty kilometres wide. Centrifugal forces anchor a miniature world of cities, fields and seas against its inner surface. With Rama apparently abandoned, this is a detective story where the explorers […]
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News story by Eddie on 19/02/2020 The Alliance Française French Film Festival is back! 2020 welcomes both a new decade and the sparkling 31st edition of the Alliance Française French Film Festival. This beloved event will once again unveil a thrilling selection of contemporary French cinema, guaranteed to captivate and stimulate audiences around the country. […]
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The Assistant, Kitty Green’s first fictionalized film, is a master class in subtlety and illustrates just how powerless young women are when faced with powerful,…
This week’s lineup of new releases has a little something for the thrill seekers and the readers who are just looking to get into their feels a bit. There’s some established voices doing what they do best and some shining debut talent that’s sure to grip. Read about them more below! The Dark Corners of […]
From the top down: I came across a battered and beautiful copy of Mervyn Peake’s novel Gormenghast by chance a few weeks ago and asked Twitter if the trilogy was any good. The answer was a very enthusiastic, even cultish Yes. I still can’t believe I’d never even heard of Peake’s Gormenghast trilogy until recently—I grew up […]
Today would have been Toni Morrison’s 89th birthday, and if you can’t make it to one of the many celebrations going on in her honor around the country, you should at least indulge in reading her words—and also, perhaps, in listening to some of her wisdom. Luckily for those wishing for more of the latter,…
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Reblogged from The Story Reading Ape: I am grateful to Chris Graham for the opportunity to write about my experience of compiling and publishing my “Selected Poems”. Firstly, one might ask, why produce a ‘Selected Poems’? In the case of myself, I have published 6 collections of poetry: “Dalliance: A Collection of Poetry and Prose”, […]
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Demonstrators protest the awarding of the 2019 Nobel literature prize to Peter Handke in Stockholm, in December 2019. Stina Stjernkvist/TT News Agency via AP Ervin Malakaj, University of British Columbia Austrian writer Peter Handke received the 2019 Nobel Prize in literature. The award is for “a writer’s life work,” and Handke has written novels, travelogues, […]
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