Seamus Heaney tonight won Britain’s most valuable poetry prize – for a volume of verse inspired by his experiences after a stroke. The £10,000 Forward award for best collection went to his Human Chain poems, his first since his stroke in 2006. Ruth Padel, chair of the judges, said the work, published by Faber & [...]
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There are very few autobiographies like The Fry Chronicles (or the earlier Moab Is My Washpot), in which a famous figure we all think of as rather lovely spends quite so many words trying to persuade us that he is, in fact, an insufferable arse. Stephen Fry’s suggestions that we regard him as a greedy, [...]
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I’m sorry for the shape this blog is in at the moment but the truth is WE’VE BEEN HACKED!! Long Story: Regular visitors will have noticed that our blog has been all over the place of recent days; well that’s because some hacker, in Russia or some far off place, knocked our blog out of [...]
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