‘I Saw a Peacock’: The 400 Year-Old Nonsense Poem

In this week’s Dispatches from The Secret Library, Dr Oliver Tearle analyses a poem that represents the meeting-point of ancient riddle and modern nonsense ‘I Saw a Peacock’ is an anonymous nonsense poem that is included in Quentin Blake’s The Puffin Book of Nonsense Verse (Puffin Poetry), a wonderful anthology […] The post ‘I Saw a Peacock’: The 400 Year-Old Nonsense Poem appeared first on Interesting Literature. Continue reading at 'Interesting Literature'

[ Interesting Literature | 2020-07-03 14:00:44 UTC ]

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Puffin lands 'heart-warming' tale of family with two mums by Jeffs and Davey

Puffin has landed a "heart-warming" picture book about a family with two mums, written by Lotte Jeffs and illustrated by Sharon Davey. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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A Summary and Analysis of the Diana and Actaeon Myth

The story of Diana and Actaeon and his band of hounds is a well-known tale from classical myth, especially thanks to Ovid, who included the story in his great anthology of myths involving transformations of various kinds, the Metamorphoses. But who was Diana, and who was Actaeon? Before we... Continue reading at Interesting Literature

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Think you know 'Horse Girls'? These writers would like a word

A new anthology offers essays by Jane Smiley, Carmen Maria Machado and many others that explode the popular trope of white, privileged equestrians. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

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Hundreds step up for program to rescue stranded puffins and petrels

The Puffin & Petrel Patrol is back for its 17th year rescuing birds in the Witless Bay Ecological Reserve and the surrounding communities. Continue reading at CBC

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Vintage signs Letters to a Writer of Colour edited by Anappara and Soomro

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Cover Reveal and Excerpt: BLACK LOVE MATTERS edited by Jessica P. Pryde

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Redefining What It Means to Be a Horse Girl

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Who Wrote the Advertising Slogan ‘Go to Work on an Egg’?

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Meeting Friederike Mayröcker (1924–2021): A Remembrance, by Sylvia Petter

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Licked Clean

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Dapo Adeola | '[Malorie Blackman] is like the aunt I didn’t even know I had'

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Poetic Points of Being in The Kolkata Cadence, by Dustin Pickering

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Transworld and Puffin do three-book deal with Hammond

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Before Billy Wilder ventured behind a camera, he was a precocious journalist honing his sharp wit

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Small Axe picks up 15 nominations for Bafta TV awards

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Panel Mania: ‘Embodied’

Embodied: An Intersectional Feminist Comics Poetry Anthology offers 23 poems focused on gender, identity, and the body by an impressive selection of contemporary cis female, trans, and non-binary poets. The post Panel Mania: ‘Embodied’ appeared first on The Millions. Continue reading at The Millions

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Opening the Doorways of Recognition for Native People: A Conversation with Joy Harjo, by Crystal AC Salas

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Puffin welcomes Donaldson and Oxenbury's 'lyrical' picture book

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Haymarket Anthology 'Against Ableism' Comes Under Scrutiny

Haymarket Books has come under scrutiny in the last week over a recently announced anthology that critics say badly misjudges the wants of the disability community. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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