Dickinson's Themes

http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/5781552/Emily_Dickinson

10 Ironic 'Speak English' Signs

A few years ago the Tea Party showed us how truly ironic protest signs could be, but the cream of the irony crop has to be these misspelled and otherwise incorrect "Speak English or get out" signs we found online.
These ironic calls to action are mostly the work of anti-immigration "patriots" who want to protest the speaking of languages other than the one they can barely understand. Not surprisingly, many of them didn't check the accuracy of their signs, decals or other messages before introducing them to the world. Luckily for us there's photo evidence!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/22/13-ironic-speak-english-signs_n_1906008.html

Goodnight Mr Tom

http://prezi.com/lgcc0jen3xkk/good-night-mr-tom-by-michelle-magorian/

Cynthia Nixon to play Emily Dickinson

Tuesday 11 September 2012

It has been reported that former Sex and the City star Cynthia Nixon is set to play poet Emily Dickinson in a new film, A Quiet Passion, by director Terence Davies.

Cynthia Nixon - set to play Emily Dickinson

The Hollywood Reporter says the film will follow Dickinson's life from childhood through to her reclusive years. During her life the poet only saw seven of her 1,000 poems published.

Davies said "I wrote the screenplay with Cynthia in mind. It was the kind of dream casting you hope for. I never, for a moment, imagined my wishes would materialise. Cynthia has such a strong feeling for the work - and now she is our Emily Dickinson. I'm over the moon."Nixon added "When I read what Terence had written, I was consumed by the character he had so beautifully put on the page. Emily Dickinson's words and Terence's somehow dovetail to create a heady elixir. When I put the script down, I knew it was a story that I simply have to be part of."Hurricane Films are set to produce the film.

Miriam Meets.... Rory, Ita and Roddy Doyle

Miriam O'Callaghan interviews Dublin writer Roddy Doyle and his parents Rory and Ita

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Old Men Are Jealous by Jennifer Johnston

 

Jennifer Johnston's response to WB Yeats's "Deirdre Of The Sorrows".. ...

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The crying games

Jared Diamond, sports writer with The Wall Street Journal, on why they published stats on which countries and athletes cried the most at the 2012 Olympics

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