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• Seamus Heaney 1939-2013

  9/3/13

  [caption id="attachment_1071" align="alignright" width="224"] Seamus Heaney, 1970.(© Simon Garbutt)[/caption] The outpouring of tributes to Seamus Heaney, who died at the age of 74 on ...

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• Beyond the Book?

  11/7/12

  The iPad mini, released a few weeks ago, is the latest hand-held device to spark debate about the future of print and the publishing industry. ...

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• All must have prizes . . .

  10/26/12

  On 16 October 2012 Hilary Mantel won the Man Booker Prize – currently the most recognised literary prize in the English-speaking world – for the ...

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• Noel Polk (1943–2012)

  8/30/12

  It is with great sadness that we learnt of the death last week of Noel Polk, Professor Emeritus in English literature at Mississippi State University. ...

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• Rhapsodies in Blue

  8/24/12

  Several years ago I was fortunate enough to be invited to the unveiling of a plaque to honour Mary Shelley (author of Frankenstein and The ...

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