Christian Bok will be on CBC Radio’s ‘Q’ (hosted by Jian Ghomeshi) this Monday, January 5, to talk about the success of his bestselling poetry book Eunoia, in the UK. Eunoia was just released this fall in England by Canongate, and it’s causing quite a stir across the pond.
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If you are a fan of the audio book iTunes is offering a little treat in the form of a chapter-a-day download for Terry Fallis’ new book The High Road.
The warm weather is here… the beginning of summer? Perhaps. In any case the vacation mind is surely awakening for some of us. If your getaway time is still well off perhaps a few brief virtual escapes might hold you over until you can set foot in some faraway land. Here are some interactive views of The Sistine Chapel, British Histories courtesy of the BBC and The Smithsonian’s current exhibits.
The word appeared first in English in 1440 in a work regarded as a masterpiece. Thomas Malory is a bit of a shadowy figure, having lived so long ago, but it seems that he was a knight on the wrong side of political struggle in England and spent lots of time in prison where he penned Le Morte d’Arthur; which translates as “the death of king Arthur.”
Agatha Christie’s cleverly plotted detective stories made her the 20th century’s best-selling fiction author—she sold billions of books throughout a career that spanned the 1920s to the 1970s. But her intricate novels may reveal more about the inner workings of the human mind than she intended: according to Dr. Ian Lancashire at the University of Toronto, the Queen of Crime left behind hidden clues to the real-life mysteries of human aging.
An .mp3 sample posted by The Guardian from the British Library’s new audio CD The Spoken Word: Sylvia Plath
It’s estimated that a new poetry journal is released every day, and in 2010 alone, more than 100,000 new poems will be published. But, it’s not reader demand that’s fueling this escalating trend. Instead, the vast majority of new poems and poets will never find much of an audience for their work. To talk about the new math of poetry is David Alpaugh, a poet and a writer.
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There must be at least a few etymologists out there in the crowd, right? Then this is the podcast for you. Charles Hodgson’s Podictionary posts a word-a-day inquiry into the strange beginnings of now-common words, often with an eye to their literary usages. He is also the author of Wine Words, a survey of the language of that grapey nectar. Today’s word is Bachelor, by the way. Check it out.
Today, Nick brings us the first entry in this new series, a conversation with Scott Gilmore of Peace Dividend Trust, a development NGO based in Ottawa and New York, with projects currently underway in Afghanistan, East Timor, and Haiti. PDT essentially promotes a buy-local strategy for international development, helping connect international aid agencies with local suppliers in the countries they work in.
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