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Have you seen the 2024 Ockhams Books Awards longlist? It’s a great big juicy list full of Aotearoa New Zealand writing. Here’s what the experts have to say about longlisted titles in the fiction and poetry awards categories.
ATHLETICS Swindon Harriers’ Billy Dickinson won gold in the junior boys hammer throw event at the English Schools Track and Field Championships SWINDON Harriers Athletics Club brought home three medals from last weekend’s English Schools’ Track and Field Championships in Manchester. While the country was wrapped up in England’s first men’s football final in 55 years, the County Ground Athletics track outfit saw six athletes head up to East Manchester Academy and Trafford AC to represent Swindon schools in a variety of events. Three of the half-dozen came away with medals, includ...
By Kevin Fahey ATHLETICS Merrett brothers, Adam, Owen and Ciaran. Big brother Owen is set to lead Wiltshire at the English Schools' Championships TWO-times medallist Owen Merrett heads a strong Wiltshire squad for the English Schools’ Championships this weekend, writes Kevin Fahey. The Sheldon School athlete won a bronze medal in the inter boys’ hammer when this event was last held in 2019; last year’s championships were cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic. Merrett was also a bronze medal winner as a junior boy in 2018 ...
The greatest poet of European colonialism was of course Rudyard Kipling. One of his best efforts, first published in 1899, was addressed to the people of the U.S.A., exhorting us to colonize the Philippines, which we had acquired in the Spanish-American War. The title of that poem was "The White Man's Burden." A listener begged to differ. Mr. Derbyshire: Kipling's "The White Man's Burden" enumerates all the problems the U.S. would face if it took the Philippines. It is against the U.S. becoming an empire. Several verses were read in the Senate as arguments against the ratification of the...
How Kipling wove a Parsi into his fantasy tale How Kipling wove a Parsi into his fantasy tale TNN / Updated: Jan 24, 2021, 09:40 IST Wonder how the world-famous author Rudyard Kipling, a Parsi artist and a Rhinoceros are connected? Look at the portrait of a Parsi artist, Pestonjee Bomanjee (1851-1938) with his long white beard, working on a canvas and beside it is a facsimile of a story written by Rudyard Kipling, on ‘How the Rhinoceros got his Wrinkly Skin’. This is a must for all English literature buffs and all those who have for long inhabited the mesmerising world of Rudyard Kipling...