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Local authors and entertainers encourage children to pick up a book at colourful city centre festival

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah and The List by Yomi Adegoke.

the 2019 poetry slam Printed and digital download photos available itll be interesting to hear what people will have written after the year weve had Having spent part of the year cooped up at home with nothing but their poems to work on, many of the island’s performance poets are gearing themselves up for one of the highlights of the Manx literary calendar. The 2020 Christmas Poetry Slam is set to take place tomorrow night (Friday) at the South Douglas Old Friends Club, Finch Road, Dougla...

And you see mark kris. what did he say? look, im going to focus on building jobs, bringing jobs home, making sure the economy is growing and he won. he didnt win by one or two points, he won by eight points. that was, as you know, just a couple of months ago. so we think that when the real polls are taken, people look at these and say do i want to return to the bush policies, which created the worst economy weve seen in three-quarters of a century. a time when it was said by economists if you pu...