Ted Hughes

Poets' suicidal journeys an unconsistent tale

Staged by Denise Clarke. Sylvia Plath Must Not Die, which opened at the Young Centre last night, is all of these things intermittently, but not with enough consistency to make it a satisfying night in the theatre. It's based on...

Screenwriter Brownlow tapped for "Blood" remake (Reuters)

By Borys Kit Borys Kit – 38 mins ago LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – John Brownlow, who penned the script for the biopic "Sylvia," has been hired to write "Captain Blood," Warner Bros.' remake of the 1935 swashbuckler. The...

Mark Doty's workshop

Fresh from winning this year's National Book Award, the poet invites you to make a close study of another species Perception refresher ... detail from Albrecht Durer's etching of a rhinoceros (1498). Image: British Museaum Mark...

Further reading

Poetry Jon Cook, ed., Poetry in Theory: an Anthology 1900-2000 (2004) Barbara Hardy, The Advantage of Lyric: Essays on Feeling in Poetry (1977) William Harmon, Classic Writings on Poetry (2003) Karen Mills-Courts, Poetry as...

Actors are Bond-ing

From one Bond to another: job well done. Roger Moore told reporters Thursday that Daniel Craig was “marvelous” as James Bond because he brought a fresh dimension to the character. The 81-year-old actor, who starred in seven...

Sir Roger Moore praises Daniel Craig to Hong Kong press

From one Bond to another: job well done. Roger Moore told reporters in Hong Kong on Thursday that Daniel Craig was "marvelous" as James Bond because he brought a fresh dimension to the character. The 81-year-old actor, who...

Season's readings: writers and politicians pick the best reads of 2008

Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieSet during and after the Lebanese civil war, Rawi Hage's extraordinary De Niro's Game (Old Street) is about the bravado and betrayal of two friends. Hage bends the English language to his will, mixes...

Theatre review: Blood Wedding / Playhouse, Liverpool

Federico García Lorca's dramas are so embedded in the red earth and fierce heat of Andalucía that it is difficult for any non-Spanish company to do them justice. Cut to the Chase is a young company whose origins are...

Ways of Life, By Andrew Motion

"We see nothing till we truly understand it," John Constable declared, and we understand through careful and prolonged engagement. Ways of Life is a thoroughly English book of essays, full of seeing and defined by...

Roger Moore says new 007 on mark

British actor Daniel Craig, left, arrives at the world premiere of "Flashbacks of a Fool" at a cinema in central London, Sunday, April 13, 2008. (Nathan Strange, The Associated Press) HONG KONG — From one Bond to another: Job...

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