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The Independent helps raise £90,000 to return 13th-century Bible to Salisbury Cathedral where it was written

It is only one of six manuscripts to be attributed to the medieval artist the Sarum Master

The Independent UK

New wars, old wars, famine, panic everywhere. So much for a quiet August

From Bangladesh to Venzuela, one calamity rapidly overtakes another, but common denominators include poverty, corruption and lack of hope

The Guardian - UK

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…

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My encounter with Edna O’Brien, the great literary crusader and giant of Irish literature

The death of Edna O’Brien at the age of 93 brings an end to the long reign of one of Ireland’s greatest writers, who attracted both controversy and adulation throughout her trailblazing career. Lynn Enright remembers the profound personal impact of her debut novel ‘The Country Girls’ – banned in…

The Independent UK

Martha Whittome obituary

Other lives: Teacher and arts administrator who played an important part in the early days of the TS Eliot prize

The Guardian - UK

“How could Syd Barrett find being in the back of a van with the lads interesting, when his head was out there? You’re working all the time in your head”: The prog credentials of Prefab Sprout’s Paddy McAloon

There are hints throughout the band’s catalogue, but cult album I Trawl The Megahertz, built from quotes found in broadcast media, is Exhibit A in the prog case

Louder

Israel and the Puritans: A dark mirror

When English settlers came to the "new Zion," they behaved much like Israeli Zionists today. What's the lesson?

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‘I want some light in my life’: eight writers make their new year reading resolutions

Finding fun, getting lost in an epic and taking a first peek at science fiction ... Sathnam Sanghera, Elif Shafak, Sarah Waters and more make their reading resolutions for 2024

The Guardian - UK

Seeking Michael Hastings, the missing man of British theatre

Best known for writing Tom and Viv, Hastings made his debut as a teenage dramatist in the 1950s. Now, his vivid ‘young man’s play’ Don’t Destroy Me is back

The Guardian - UK

Gyles Brandreth: ‘Never look back. You might fall down the stairs’

The writer and broadcaster, 75, on keeping busy, meeting TS Eliot and the Queen, and why his wife thinks he’s ridiculous

The Guardian - UK

Blokecore, The Waste Land and Maggie Smith: the year in fashion

In 2023 there have been highs, lows, brilliance and misfires – and that’s just the clothes. We take a look back at the catwalks, inspiration and snacks that have been in-demand

The Guardian - UK

Ishion Hutchinson: ‘I can hear a poem before it arrives’

The Jamaican poet on his new collection about West Indian soldiers in the first world war, diving into the messiness of language, and the book he rereads every autumn

The Guardian - UK

Ted Hughes, 25 years on: Now, more than ever, the poet is the voice for our times

The poet laureate, who died a quarter of a century ago today, believed his Shakespeare fixation was almost fatal; his first wife, Sylvia Plath, was certainly the Titania to his Oberon. With his almost psychic connection to nature and a charisma so powerful that even the Queen was rumoured to…

The Independent UK

Louise Glück obituary

Former US poet laureate who could create a landscape in her work that made her seem a visionary

The Guardian - UK

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Louise Glück, Nobel prize-winning poet, dies at 80

Pulitzer prize winner and former US poet laureate was known for her sharp, austere lyrical work

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Louise Glück, Nobel-winning poet of terse and candid lyricism, dies at 80

Nobel laureate Louise Glück has died at 80

The Guardian - UK

‘He changed my life’: Tom Hiddleston, Rachel Weisz and more on Terence Davies

Terence Davies, who died last Saturday, was a visionary British director, who brought passion and eccentricity to every film. Actors including Jennifer Ehle, Peter Capaldi, Simon Russell Beale and Peter Mullan recall his unique style and sensitivity

The Guardian - UK

Bring No Clothes: Bloomsbury and the Philosophy of Fashion by Charlie Porter review – style revolution

A fashion journalist links the sartorial choices of Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, TS Eliot et al to their avant garde outlook on life

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Alas, the friendly Twitter blue bird is no more. It is an ex-logo

Designer Martin Grasser listened to birdsong as he created the cheery, rotund symbol, now unnervingly replaced by an X

The Conversation

'This is the way the world ends': Nevil Shute's On the Beach warned us of nuclear annihilation. It's still a hot-button issue

One of the most haunting poems of the 20th century, T.S. Eliot’s The Hollow Men (1925), concludes:

The Guardian - UK

Richard Ford: ‘I don’t read for comfort. Comfort I source elsewhere’

The Pulitzer prizewinning author on taking life lessons from Chekhov, warming to Woolf and reading Larkin on loop

The Guardian - UK

Where to start with: Iain Banks

He catapulted to fame with depraved, funny novel The Wasp Factory in 1984, but the much-loved Scottish writer had a parallel career as an influential sci-fi writer

Chicago Sun-Times

A visit to cat heaven

Fat Cat Rescue in Wadsworth provides a safe haven for hundreds of feral cats.

The Conversation

The Anxiety of Influence: Harold Bloom's (not so) influential idea at 50

Joshua Cohen’s ribald campus novel The Netanyahus (2021), winner of the Pulitzer Prize, is set during the winter of 1959-60. It depicts Ben-Zion Netanyahu, father of the current Israeli Prime Minister, during an itinerant phase of his academic career.

The Times of India

Pulitzer winner Paul Muldoon to chair TS Eliot Prize 2023

Former TV and radio producer and TS Eliot Prize winner, Paul Muldoon is the Chair of Judges for TS Eliot Prize 2023. Other judges in the panel include Sasha Dugdale and Denise Saul.

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