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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 year's 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 Pascale Petit. This resource was commissioned by The Poetry Society as part of the 2020 National Poe...

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 drawings of parrots made in the Zoological Gardens in Regent’s Park. The young Lear took to birds lik...

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 well-loved poets before him, Gross has succeeded in creating zany, cheeky, sometimes even peculiar p...

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. The show will cover how the progressive and subversive history of nightclub design has influenced po...

> 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 same period, guided the museum through considerable development of its physical space, including the ...