How to write a poem in five easy steps
Poetry is the oldest and most varied art we have: if anyone tells you there is one correct method for composing a poem, ...
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The Bard’s the thing: A show about Shakespeare
Shakespeare. Shakespeare and cancel culture. Shakespeare and ‘Anyone But You’ and other rom-com interpretations. And ...
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Remembering Kenneth Branagh’s Shakespearean Heyday (and Forgetting His Recent Lear)
In the nineteen-eighties and nineties, the actor, writer, and director ushered in a Golden Era of Shakespeare plays on film ...
Dame Judi Dench celebrates 90th birthday
Multi-award winning actress Dame Judi Dench is marking a milestone after turning 90 on Monday. Dame Judi, who lives in Surrey ...
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Poetry Competition Adult Runner-Up If Shakespeare was Gibraltarian today
Michael Nicholls Shall I compare thee to wisdom in fools? Lost as a tempest on midsummer's night, Have we with Brussels? Will ...
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Poetry from Daily Life: Finding inspiration in the click-clink-clack of a turn signal
a clerihew is a poem that always starts with a person’s name and spends its four lines talking about that person; Shakespeare wrote sonnets that are 14 lines long, have a very specific rhyming pattern ...
Some people can’t tell the difference between human and AI poetry – and even prefer the latter
It has been found that AI poems scored higher than their human-written counterparts in attributes such as ‘creativity’, ...
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William Shakespeare's The Tempest returns to Théâtre de Poche Montparnasse
William Shakespeare's The Tempest, translated and directed by Stéphanie Tesson, runs at the Théâtre de Poche Montparnasse ...
Poet and you don’t even know it: write poems, not essays
For a shorter exercise, pick a vowel and write a poem where every word includes that vowel. Or write a poem from the perspective of an object — what would your uni fridge say if it could talk? Or that ...
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To be, or not to be: world-first exhibition of "living portraits" celebrates the best Shakespearean actors of our generation
On display at the Red 8 Gallery, expect to hear Shakespeare's most beautiful sonnets, soliloquies and speeches from the moving portraits of the likes of Juliet Stevenson, Sir Ian McKellen, Patrick ...
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When Poetry Could Define a Life
As a scholar, she focused on clarifying the mechanics of that artistry. Her magnum opus, The Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets, is a feat of “close reading,” examining the 154 poems word by word to wring ...