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FIRST THOUGHTS: Poet Phillip Larkin shown in a new light

IT is 30 years since Philip Larkin’s untimely death from cancer in 1985 at the age of 63, a death he had long predicted.

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Hope and history rhyme

Former US president Bill Clinton praised Seamus Heaney as “our finest poet of the rhythms of ordinary lives” and a “powerful voice for peace” in a tribute.

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‘As modest and kindly as he was gifted’

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Outsider Jacobson wins Booker Prize with comic novel

Howard Jacobson tonight won this year’s Man Booker Prize for his comic novel 'The Finkler Question'.

Tue, 12 Oct, 2010

Dublin writer on Man Booker shortlist

Australian novelist Peter Carey could become the first author to win the Man Booker Prize three times after it was announced he was on this year’s shortlist.

Tue, 07 Sep, 2010

Two Irish writers make Booker longlist

TWO Irish authors are among the 13 to have made the “Man Booker dozen” longlist out of a total of 138 books.

Wed, 28 Jul, 2010

Heaney calls for poet Hughes to be honoured

Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney has called for Ted Hughes to be honoured in the Poets’ Corner of Westminster Abbey.

Tue, 01 Dec, 2009

Football's first chant Laureate sings when he's winning

A 37-year-old Birmingham City follower has landed the football fan’s dream job – he has become England’s first Chant Laureate.

Tue, 11 May, 2004

Haddon scoops Whitbread award

Author Mark Haddon was celebrating today after his novel The Curious Incident of The Dog in the Night-Time scooped the Whitbread Book of The Year award.

Wed, 28 Jan, 2004

Madonna included in encyclopaedia

Madonna and JK Rowling have joined the ranks of Einstein and Freud with an entry in the Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Sun, 17 Mar, 2002