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Mutabaruka For Urban Voices Poetry Festival
Mutabaruka's voice is booming and full of bass, bursting with the flavour of Jamaica.The Kingston-hailing dub poet (formerly Allan Hope) explains that his name is Rwandan for "One who is Victorious". "I was at...
Miss Melanin (A Dedication to the Sisters)
Ms. Melanin is a beautiful Nu Soul and Spoken Word video which inspires women who were and are teased and discriminated against because of their skin color. Kamal Imani let's them know just how beautiful they are.... The poetry of Osama bin Laden to be published
Poetry is often said to be in the heart of lovers, artists, and great thinkers but many in the west will be suprised that Osama bin Laden is a poet. Bin Laden is according to Professor Flagg Miller of the...
created by Paul Conneally | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
606 views | 29 recommendations | 9 comments
606 views | 29 recommendations | 9 comments
One Mile Wide - Couple thwart hotel chain in buying paradise location
Herm Island is small. One mile wide. A hotel with no televisions or telephones. Its 50 residents become worried when long term leaseholders Adrian and Penny Heyworth decide to sell up and move on. Fears rise...
created by Paul Conneally | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
238 views | 12 recommendations | 6 comments
238 views | 12 recommendations | 6 comments
Prof Ralph Russell - the British Baba-i-Urdu - Passes Away
Prominent Urdu scholar, Professor Ralph Russell,Head of Urdu department, Oriental and African Studies, UK, passed away. His death is a huge loss to the Urdu language. Among Russell’s many famous works is his...
created by rumana husain | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
1111 views | 11 recommendations | 5 comments
1111 views | 11 recommendations | 5 comments
Poet's rhyming riposte leaves Mrs Schofield 'gobsmacked'
Poet Carol Ann Duffy has been touted by some as possibly being in line to be the first ever woman British poet laureat and here we see her response to the English exam boards removing her poem 'Education for...
created by Paul Conneally | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
488 views | 12 recommendations | 4 comments
488 views | 12 recommendations | 4 comments
One of Pakistan's Greatest Poet, Ahmad Faraz Died Last Night
Ahmad Faraz is considered as one of the greatest modern Urdu poets of the present times. Born as Syed Ahmad Shah in 1934, he breathed his last at a hospital in Islamabad, Pakistan, last night (Monday, August 25,...
created by rumana husain | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
1416 views | 24 recommendations | 12 comments
1416 views | 24 recommendations | 12 comments
Coming soon: Ninoy the brand
A new icon in Filipino pop culture it is said will be introduced soon. He is none other than - Ninoy Aquino, the late senator whose assasination sparked the peaceful 1986 EDSA People Power Revolt that...I love you, Lord Byron
Poets these days rarely make the headlines and their fans are not generally the knicker throwing variety that bomb the stage of pop icons such as Tom Jones and his modern counterparts with underwear and love...
created by Paul Conneally | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
259 views | 5 recommendations | 1 comment
259 views | 5 recommendations | 1 comment
Funeral Planned for Palestinian Poet Mahmoud Darwish
Acclaimed and exiled Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish (see his biography on Wikipedia) will be buried in the West Bank on Wednesday. Darwish passed away this past weekend, at the age of 67, due to complications...
created by Jarrett Martineau | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
732 views | 2 recommendations | 6 comments
732 views | 2 recommendations | 6 comments
World's Oldest Joke Uncovered by Boffins
It has today been revealed that academics have discovered the world's oldest joke. It is 1,000 years old and was unearthed at Exeter Cathedral in a book of 10th Century Anglo-Saxon poetry. " They found the wry observation in the Codex Exoniensis, a 10th... The power of Poetry in our present society
“Most of the people do not regard poetry as part of the society or as being part of a human life. When comparing it with any kind of art we know, poetry will always be there and will always be part of our daily...
created by Moruthane KP | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
759 views | 35 recommendations | 15 comments
759 views | 35 recommendations | 15 comments
Poet criticises BBC soaps and aggressive interviewers
Wendy Cope is the poet that many feel could be should be the UK's first woman poet laureate - that's if she'd accept it of course. She knows a bit about radio as she is one of the few poets heard on the radio on a...
created by Paul Conneally | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
268 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
268 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
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