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"The tours were getting longer and crazier, and the expectations around us were astronomical." How Powerslave cemented Iron Maiden as the biggest metal band on the planet in 1984

Is fencing better than karate? Was the world about to end? How many frozen daiquiries can you have and still pull off an epic solo? Maiden were answering all the important questions when they made Powerslave

Metal Hammer

How do you read a poem? Embrace the sound, the strangeness and the ambiguity

A word is dead When it is said, Some say, I say it just Begins to live That day. – Emily Dickinson If someone asked you how you felt and you said you had “a sense sublime of something far more deeply interfused, whose dwelling was the light of setting…

The Conversation

Poem of the week: Duty Surviving Self-Love by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

This austere reflection on lost friendships was written in the poet’s later years as he fought opium addiction

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"Everything up to then had been about climbing the mountain. With Powerslave it felt like we were looking out over the rest of the world": How Iron Maiden grew up

When it came to making the follow-up to 1983’s Piece Of Mind album, Iron Maiden knew they needed to come up with something a bit special. That was Powerslave

Metal Hammer

21 of the best poetry books of all time

Delve into the hypnotic world of lyrical literature

Evening Standard

All Before Me by Esther Rutter review – the healing power of place and poetry

Filled with fascinating potted histories, this memoir of a year spent at Wordsworth’s Dove Cottage following a breakdown is wonderfully revivifying

The Guardian - UK

Is there such a thing as ‘the one’? And if so, might it be possible to conjure them into view?

The idea that you can ‘manifest’ your soulmate by ‘raising your vibration’, once the domain of New Age spirituality, is common among gen Z social media users. Juliana Piskorz wonders whether to give it a go

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Antiques Roadshow viewers repulsed as expert values envelopes of famous poets’ hair at £40,000

Some of the hair was obtained on Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s deathbed

The Independent UK

Antiques Roadshow viewers 'feel sick' after hearing staggering value of famous human hair

Hair belonging to poets William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey caught the eye of one of the specialist as the Antiques Roadshow took a trip to Cornwall

Daily Mirror

Saving anti-slavery poem won’t cost Charles a king’s ransom

Brief letters: Monarchy’s slave trade links | Lancashire cotton workers | Eating squirrel | Ginger Rogers’ films

The Guardian - UK

Rare anti-slavery poem by Coleridge at risk of leaving UK, according to DCMS

The poem discusses the evils of slavery and laments the fate of slaves on the Middle Passage transportation route.

The Independent UK

Export ban on Coleridge anti-slavery manuscript as British buyer sought

Handwritten poem in Greek from his undergraduate years has recommended sale price of £20,400

The Guardian - UK

Valentine's Day: a brief history of the soulmate – and why it's a limited concept

One of the difficult things about working on the philosophy of love is that human relationships change, but our dominant images of love tend to remain the same.

The Conversation

‘Remixed’ version of Wordsworth and Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads highlights 21st-century poverty

The Refuge from the Ravens project places new works alongside the original ‘redefining it to help people grasp the concept’ of homelessness

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Stringer among friends in night of vivid story-telling

FOR all intents and purposes Liz Stringer could have been playing in her lounge room to a group of her closest friends. Stringer has always been a warm and engaging performer. She's never been hung up with creative pretension. The stories she spins are lived experiences - which many of…

The Conversation

Plagiarism, John Hughes’ The Dogs and the ethical responsibilities of the novelist

John Hughes’s novel The Dogs has been withdrawn from the longlist for the Miles Franklin Prize after an investigation by The Guardian identified numerous instances of plagiarism. Hughes’s lifting of passages from other books has sparked furious debate and literary detective work – mostly on Twitter – prompting questions about…

The Walrus

Robots Are Writing Poetry, and Many People Can’t Tell the Difference

Machines are putting out astonishingly human writing. What does that mean for the future of art?

The Guardian - UK

ECB’s statistical spin hides the fact that Joe Root was sunk as England captain

A nice person and an all-time great batsman but after 64 Tests it is still hard to know what a Joe Root side is supposed to look like

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In Somerset did Kubla Khan: Coleridge manuscript returns to poem’s source

Taunton welcomes handwritten version of work poet said came to him after drug-induced reverie in nearby farmhouse

Evening Standard

Londoner’s Diary: Gift to Coleridge Trust in drive to save poet’s grave

THE FIGHT to save poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Highgate grave from “benign neglect” has entered a new phase, The Londoner has learnt, following a £20,000 donation to the trust concerned.

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