WHAT IF WE ARE GOD - Threat To Democracy In The 21st Century
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The current political climate is showing a political will that is struggling to effectively come to terms with global warming, let alone deal with it. Whilst a serious threat of this nature is a first for civilisation, politicians struggle with it because it can directly conflict with the agendas of those who helped them into […]
Capitalism, Corporate, Democracy, Finance, Global, God, Life, Nature, Political, Power, Society, WarCARNAGE & THE MEDIA - The Basis of News Within Society
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This fifth offering from Jean Seaton, Professor of Media Studies at Westminster University, is a passionate appraisal of news and the basis of it within society today.
In ten tight chapters Jean takes the reader through her principle ideas, from Blood in the High street to Global Compassion, dissecting the representation of major tragedies played out […]
THE WHITBREAD BOOK AWARDS 2005
The Whitbread is one of the longest established and esteemed book awards in the UK and celebrates some of the most enjoyable books published in the UK each year across a number of different genres.
There are six awards in total - five category awards (Novel, First Novel, Biography, Poetry and Children’s) and, from these, one […]
THE TOKEN - by John Donne
by John Donne
SEND me some tokens, that my hope may live
Or that my easeless thoughts may sleep and rest;
Send me some honey, to make sweet my hive,
That in my passions I may hope the best.
I beg nor ribbon wrought with thine own hands,
To knit our loves in the fantastic strain
Of new-touch’d youth; nor ring to […]
WHITECHAPEL LIBRARY, ALDGATE EAST by Bernard Kops
Bernard Kops was born in the East End of London. Since The Hamlet of Stepney Green (1959), he has written over 40 plays, nine novels, and seven volumes of poetry including Grandchildren and Other Poems (Hearing Eye, 2000).
This poem on Whitechapel Library is reprinted here by kind permission of the poet and publisher. Bernard Kops […]
LIBRARY OF THE PEOPLE - Whitechapel Library
Whitechapel Library - that great library of the East End - finally closed its doors on Saturday 6th August 2005, after more than a century of use.
To those who used it down the years it was much more than a simple storehouse of books, as the poem here by Bernard Kops well shows. From its […]
LONDON POETS - Vision Literary Society
Vision Literary Society is going to publish the first issue of its quarterly poetry magazine London Poets in November 2005.
Send at least two of your unpublished poems with a photograph and a brief biography including contact phone and e-mail to London Poets, 132 Rounton Road, London E3 4EX by 30 September. Poems should not exceed […]
ISMAIL KADARE - Man Booker International Prize Winner 2005
“Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible… The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship”
Ismail Kadare, Albanian writer of broad international reputation who has been living in France, has won the first ever Man Booker International Prize recently. He has received the prize of £60,000 and a trophy at the Award Ceremony on 27 June 2005 […]
SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2005 - Jonathan Coe Wins Non-Fiction
Jonathan Coe is the winner of the £30,000 BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2005 for his book Like a Fiery Elephant: The Story of BS Johnson published by Picador.
B.S. Johnson was a brilliant working-class writer, compared to Joyce and so wedded to innovation that he cut holes in the pages of his novels. […]
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