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‘I can gauge John’s reaction: that’s good, stick that in’: Paul McCartney on how old bandmates – and Oasis – inspired his nostalgic new album

At 83, McCartney is looking back for his 18th solo LP, to formative flirtations, family singalongs, even his own birth – and the febrile times that mirror our own. It’s given him ‘every hope that we’ll get through’

The Guardian - UK

50th anniversary of Seamus Heaney’s landmark collection on Troubles to be marked

A three-day conference at the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University Belfast will bring together experts on the poet.

Evening Standard

"I remember it to this day, you know, exactly where I was when he said it": Paul McCartney's favourite song he's ever written is possibly the only one John Lennon ever complimented him on directly

Best of 2024: "It really gave me a lot of confidence in that song, and in my writing"

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Poem of the week: Whilst the Ox and Ass by Paul Muldoon

The biblical story of two animals granted the power of speech for their reverence to the holy child becomes an angry reflection on those denied that power

The Guardian - UK

"I remember it to this day, you know, exactly where I was when he said it": Paul McCartney's favourite song he's ever written is possibly the only one John Lennon ever complimented him on directly

"It really gave me a lot of confidence in that song, and in my writing"

MusicRadar

Anne Enright: ‘Give me Moby-Dick over Persuasion anytime’

The award-winning Irish author on her Women’s prize-shortlisted novel The Wren, the Wren, waylaying poet Paul Muldoon at an airport and why she no longer writes about her family

The Guardian - UK

‘Push through the feelings of: I’m worthless, this sucks’: can anyone learn to be a top songwriter?

Songwriting courses are exploding in popularity, with everyone from Mark Ronson to Alicia Keys as teachers. On a retreat in north Wales, our folk music critic tries to write her first song

The Guardian - UK

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"Because I don't read music, I didn't know what the melody that went with it was": Paul McCartney explains why his musical limitations and "stealing" benefitted the Abbey Road medley that gave us The Beatles' true swansong

"It's turned out to be quite soulful," the legendary songwriter reflects

MusicRadar

Paul McCartney calls Yoko Ono’s presence in Beatles studio sessions ‘workplace interference’

Musician says he and his bandmates ‘just got on with it’ because they were not ‘confrontational’

The Independent UK

The week in radio: Young Again with Kirsty Young; The Today Podcast; McCartney: A Life in Lyrics – review

Kirsty’s back with the A-listers in a classy but flimsy format, Nick Robinson and Amol Rajan get emotional during their new show, while Macca takes a leisurely trip down memory lane

The Guardian - UK

Paul McCartney reveals how John Lennon continues to influence him

Macca, 81, admits he changes the lyrics if Lennon would think they are ‘too soppy’

The Independent UK

Shortlisted TS Eliot prize poets speak to a disrupted world

The 10 listed collections range from ‘zany intimacy’ by Sharon Olds to explorations of Black identity from Ishion Hutchinson and Jason Allen-Paisant

The Guardian - UK

Paul McCartney goes on tape in A Life in Lyrics, his major new podcast series - "I wanted to become a person who wrote songs and wanted to be someone whose life was in music"

"We realised there was something very special happening," says collaborator Paul Muldoon

MusicRadar

Pulitzer winner Paul Muldoon to chair TS Eliot Prize 2023

Former TV and radio producer and TS Eliot Prize winner, Paul Muldoon is the Chair of Judges for TS Eliot Prize 2023. Other judges in the panel include Sasha Dugdale and Denise Saul.

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BBC Northern Ireland unveils new Season of Arts on iPlayer

The collection aims to shine a light on the best of local talent and share their words, music, performances, and stories

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