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Is writing a moral act?

28 June 2004

Professor Alexander McCall Smith is an unlikely popular author.  Read more

Why are dead poets dead?

21 June 2004

A survey published a month or two ago, but little publicised, turns an interesting spotlight on the mortality levels attached to different kinds of writing. James Kaufman, a professor at California State University, has shown that poets are likely to die younger than any other kind of writer.  Read more

The biggest book of the year?

14 June 2004

Bill Clinton's memoir was the hit of BookExpo this year and huge sales are anticipated when it's published on 22nd June. There's been a lot of speculation about the advance paid by the publishers Knopf, with the Wall Street Journal bringing its gigantic initial estimate down to a measly $9 million dollars. My Life is reckoned to be too important for the publishers to  Read more

Poets to define the next generation

7 June 2004

The list of 20 Next Generation Poets has just been announced. Ten years after the successful New Generation poets promotion, this new list is an attempt to put poetry back at the centre of the cultural landscape and to celebrate the work of these 20 exhilarating new voices. The original New Generation list had an age restriction, meaning that a number of important poets in their e  Read more