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Why Christopher Nolan turned Circe into a vindictive witch

I’ve taught “The Odyssey” to college students for over a decade, including in a course on witches in Western culture. I suspect my students would immediately notice that the Circe in Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of “The Odyssey” is a departure from the one who appears in Homer’s ancient poem.

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BBCSSO/Wigglesworth / Booth review – Brett Dean’s song cycle is rich and strange

Soprano Clare Booth, Ryan Wigglesworth and the BBC Scottish gave the world premiere of Dean’s theatrical and engaging The World’s Wife. Elgar’s 1st didn’t quite achieve lift-off but Weir’s Moon and Star had sweep and shimmer

The Guardian - UK

‘Not for ogling’: forget Titian, Botticelli and the male fantasists – only women can paint great female nudes

From Yoko Ono to Frida Kahlo, from Louise Bourgeois to Artemisia Gentileschi, women have long been capturing the unvarnished truth about their own bodies – and that’s why my novel Female, Nude weaves them into the plot

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Carol Ann Duffy writes ‘bombsite’ poem about Trump’s UK state visit

Exclusive: Former poet laureate has reader contrasting pomp and ceremony of banquet with ruins left by war

The Guardian - UK

‘We listen to it to remind us of home’: 100 years of the Shipping Forecast

An enigmatic nautical bulletin that has transmitted across dark waters for a whole century, it has beguiled everyone from Carol Ann Duffy to Blur – and offered a very British comfort to people across the globe

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on the rise of eco-poetry: writing cannot ignore global heating

Editorial: Verse’s connection to nature can inspire awareness and hope amid the climate crisis, offering clarity beyond data

The Guardian - UK

Australia will get a poet laureate next year. Here’s what needs to change first

A laureateship will force government, academic and literary institutions to confront their wilful neglect of poetry – and ask poets to begin to look outward, too

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Poet Jackie Kay: ‘I could have been brought up by Tories!’

The writer on being adopted as a baby by Scottish communists, facing racism in suburban Glasgow, and why her late parents are at the heart of her new collection

The Guardian - UK

Sarah Weir obituary

Head of Arts Council England provision for London, the Design Council and arts and cultural strategy at the 2012 Olympics

The Guardian - UK

‘A hero to millions’: Benjamin Zephaniah remembered by Michael Rosen, Kae Tempest and more

The acclaimed writer and poet for children and adults has died aged 65. Here, leading contemporaries pay tribute

The Guardian - UK

Carol Ann Duffy writes poem paying tribute to England’s female footballers

We See You names pioneers of women’s game as well as Lionesses in ‘team talk’ sonnet

The Guardian - UK

The World’s Wife review – Carol Ann Duffy’s poems come to vivid and vital musical life

Jorinde Keesmaat’s staging of Tom Green’s reworked music-theatre piece is performed with fabulously assured authority by Lucia Lucas and the Ragazze Quartet

The Guardian - UK

Don’t write what you know, write what you feel: bestselling authors offer tips on World Book Day

Malorie Blackman advises budding authors to pick up on news stories, but Julia Donaldson warns of pitfalls – and Alan Moore says you should read terrible books as well as good ones

The Guardian - UK

Australia is to have a poet laureate – how will the first appointment define us as a nation?

Poetry has often been a matter of nation building, including in Australia. Who hasn’t learnt by heart at school some verses from My Country (1908) by Dorothea Mackellar?

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The modern Scottish poets rivalling Burns, from Carol Ann Duffy to Jackie Kay

Let's take a minute to praise the modern Scots poets who could give Robert Burns a run for his money this Burns Night.

Daily Mirror

Tributes paid to Daily Mirror legend Eugene Duffy who was 'backbone of the paper'

Tributes have poured in for the Daily Mirror 'legend' Eugene Duffy, who tragically died aged 60 after a short illness - those who knew him said he was the 'backbone of the paper'

The Independent UK

5 new Christmas books to read this week

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of Snowed In For Christmas by Sarah Morgan and Jim’s Spectacular Christmas by Emma Thompson.

The Independent UK

‘The crown of ice melting’: Former poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy shares poem to mark Queen’s death

The poem, ‘Daughter’, has been published on the day of Queen Elizabeth II’s state funeral

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And did those feet: 10 walks inspired by famous poets

Matching rich verse with great scenery, these strolls follow in the footsteps of some of our greatest wordsmiths, from William Blake to Carol Ann Duffy

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