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Beyond Brokeback – Annie Proulx

20 May 2022
literary prizes, literature, prose
annie-proulx

“There’s a point in your life when you quit expecting wonderful and delightful things to happen to you, and I […]

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The Magic of Books and John Donne

6 May 2022
literature, poetry

William Caxton, an English businessman and diplomat, was based for much of his time in Europe. After seeing printing presses […]

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Free Speech, Banned Books

22 April 2022
drama, literature, politics, prose

Free speech is a central tenet of democracies; everyone must be able to express their opinions, disagree and debate, even […]

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Ukrainian Fiction and Non-Fiction

8 April 2022
literature, politics

Apart from an allusion in Arthur’s post in March, we haven’t mentioned Ukraine. I was driving through a small Welsh […]

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The Challenging Drama of Harold Pinter

25 March 2022
drama, literary prizes
Harold Pinter

The Homecoming by Harold Pinter is a remarkable play. It is staged quite frequently, and I have seen it in […]

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Russian History and Russian Literature

11 March 2022
literature, politics, prose

This week, student Arthur links contemporary  events with a Russian novel first published in 1967. As the last few weeks […]

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Exploring Margaret Atwood

25 February 2022
prose

This month, Margaret Atwood is due to publish a volume of her non-fiction essays in a hefty volume titled Burning […]

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Angry Young Men at the Kitchen Sink

4 February 2022
drama, politics, prose

This week, I was struck by this article in The Guardian, about the humble beginnings of a literary publisher. Back […]

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Maya Angelou Still Rising

21 January 2022
drama, language, poetry, Shakespeare
maya angelou quarter

Times, they are a-changin’, sang Bob Dylan. He’s not just a singer, remember, but the winner of the Nobel Prize […]

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Romantic Inspiration

7 January 2022
poetry, prose, Romanticism
daffodils

You may be familiar with this poem, at least by reputation:  I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on […]

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