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How The Legend Of Santa Claus Began Children of all ages have believed in Santa Claus for years. The New Image Of Santa Clement C. Moore wrote a poem for his children titled, “A Visit from Saint Nicholas.” It was published as...
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 11.21.2009 Dozens of University of Arizona students took turns reading aloud from the works of John Milton during a 12-hour Milton Marathon Friday. The event, in its 12th year, celebrated poetry and...
It is time for a FIRST Wild Card Tour book review! If you wish to join the FIRST blog alliance, just click the button. We are a group of reviewers who tour Christian books. A Wild Card post includes a brief bio of the author...
Frances Leviston is charmed by a vision of northern England in a debut collection "O collapser of delicate moods and arch lyrical poignancies! / damper of youthful enthusiasms! / user of out-of-date prophylactic sheaths!" The...
David Malouf’s first novel Johnno (1975) was a semi-autobiographical tale of a school friendship. Much of his subsequent work, however, has explored the identity of his native Australia, from the 19th-century colonialism of...
Published Date: 21 November 2009 LET'S start with the bleedin' obvious. Edinburgh's egalitarianism (even megastars get the same £150 fee as debut writers) and the friendliness of the Borders Book Festival at Melrose are...
Ferdinand Mount Andrew Brown has spent a lot of his life writing about religion, not least for The Spectator. He has never written anything remotely like Fishing in Utopia (Granta, £8.99), but then nor has anyone else. The book...
The Seth Man, November 2009ce “The Silent Corner And The Empty Stage” is a near-impenetrable zone where the poetic vessel of Peter Hammill’s informed head navigates some choppy waters yet remains intact at all times. This third...
Listening once again to the audio recordings of the 26/11 gunmen talking to their handlers in Pakistan, I came across this surreal gem: a handler dictating a (rather corny) sher (poem) to Imran, one of the terrorists at Nariman...
A Period of Great Social, Religious and Political Turmoil The Metaphysical Poets lived and wrote in time of great upheaval and change. To fully comprehend the poetic writing of John Donne, James Herbert, Andrew Marvell and...
