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featured Tell & See: National Poetry Day 2020 visionary poetry resource Explore Diamonds by Evelyn Byrne, a commended poem in the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2019 with the help of shiny fish, and celebrate this years National Poetry Day, with the theme of Vision. Download featured Eco-poetry National Poetry Competition writing resource from Pascale Petit Explore two National Poetry Competition prize-winning poems that address ecological themes with poet, teacher and former NPC judge Pas...

News that the Loro Parque Fundación has released two Lear’s macaws ( Anodorhynchus leari) into their natural habitat in Brazil has had Rakewell squawking with pleasure. These Brazilian parrots were first described in the 1850s but would not be defined as a distinct species until 1978, when an ornithologist discovered their wild population. At that point, they were named after Edward Lear, the painter-poet whose first publication, in 1832, was a volume of lithographic reproductions of his dra...

Share: The poetry book gives readers a glimpse into the seemingly mundane yet creative life of a retiree. Authors Press announces the release of author Damon Gross’ inspired poetry collection, “A Light and Lively Look at Life: A Collection of Limericks,” where he shares his thoughts and emotions through one of the most entertaining poetic forms, limerick. History has supplied readers with amazing limerick writers like Edward Lear, William Shakespeare, Ogden Nash and Dr. Seuss. Like these ...

March 19, 2021 4:40 pm V&A Dundee – club culture exhibition V&A Dundee’s Night Fever exhibition will be one of the first shows to open in the UK, with Scotland coming out of lockdown earlier than the rest on 1 May. Appropriate too, that it will explore a world that most of us haven’t seen for more than a year: clubbing. Night Fever will delve into iconic clubs from New York, Paris, Florence, Manchester, London, Bierut and Berlin – as well as those in towns and cities across Scotland. ...

> Patrons Lisa Moller (right) and her mom, Ellie Moller, take in the scene at the Denver Art Museum on March 3, 2021. (AAron Ontiveroz, The Denver Post) Every successful museum director leaves a legacy with the institution he or she leads. In the case of Christoph Heinrich, who has headed the Denver Art Museum since 2010, that will most likely center around the significant expansion of 19th-century European paintings in DAM’s collection. That’s saying something, since Heinrich has, in the s...

How the Mount Athos monasteries prospered for centuries By Alice Isabella Sullivan Mount Athos—the peninsula in Greece that is home to one of the oldest Eastern Christian monastic communities—has received support from an array of patrons over the course of its long history. This patronage of Athos ensured the autonomous continuity and prosperity of the monasteries and accorded with the royal aspirations of those rulers who extended the gifts and donations. From the Middle Ages to the presen...

No, they’re not canceling Dr. Seuss. But a lot of people want you to think so. It’s worth thinking about why that is.

Even in ordinary times, it would be hard to read about Richard and Isabel Burton without catching a serious case of wanderlust. In the midst of England’s third national lockdown, however, and a bleak winter to boot, descriptions of the Victorian couple’s moonlit strolls through the botanical gardens of Rio, or nights under canvas in the Syrian desert, proved too much for this north Londoner.  A Rage to Live, the title of Mary S. Lovell’s biography of the pair, perfectly summed up my stat...

News that former Beatle is writing his life story has excited Helen

Last modified on Mon 8 Mar 2021 10.44 EST Agatha Christie South Lodge at Greenway, Devon The main house is so well preserved it’s as if Agatha Christie just stepped outside. In the drawing room it takes little imagination to picture yourself listening to one of her manuscript readings. If you are inclined to detective work, you’ll work out for yourself that the scratch marks on the bedroom door were made by the family dog. Christie’s holiday house, Greenway, is gracious and beau...