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Candidate featured on council campaign cards (Northern Echo)

POLICE are examining a complaint that a parliamentary candidate was featured on council literature.

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Candidate featured on council campaign cards (Northern Echo)

Big Read aims to return people to literature (The Index-Journal)

Nancy Nicoll reads “To Kill a Mockingbird” on Tuesday afternoon in her home. The book is being featured as part of The Big Read. (Staff photo by T.M

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Big Read aims to return people to literature (The Index-Journal)

Six sense (Money Marketing Online)

The Cru debacle underlines that far too many advisers do not delve into detail and are too easily seduced by promotional literature and, if my memory is correct, brochures and flyers that featured photos of young ladies in greater density than the key features of the invest-ment being promoted.

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Six sense (Money Marketing Online)

Dachshunds gather in Poland (redOrbit)

Organizers of the annual Dachshund March in Poland said dozens of wiener dogs and their human companions participated in this year’s event. The Krakow parade, which marked its 15th year Sunday, featured a dachshund costume contest and competitions for humans creating dachshund-inspired art and literature, the Krakow Post reported Tuesday. This year’s costume prize went to a dog dressed as an …

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Dachshunds gather in Poland (redOrbit)

Melbourne Writers Festival 2009 diary part eight: why Australian literature? (Crikey)

Instead of doing this session by session (as the last two days are a blur) I’ll just write it as it comes out. * First of all, Why Australian Literature? looked at our national literature and it’s current ‘crisis’, that of globalisation and the possible ’swamping’ of other voices and literatures

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Melbourne Writers Festival 2009 diary part eight: why Australian literature? (Crikey)

Oldest Maltese poem features in new music album (Times of Malta)

The oldest known poem in Malta, the Kantilena , is featured in a new album issued today by singer Doreen Galea and her composer son Dominic. The album, called Ommi , also features extracts of other milestones in Maltese literature, including works by Dun Karm and Ruzar Briffa.

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Oldest Maltese poem features in new music album (Times of Malta)

Successful Malta exhibition in Victoria Australia (Maltamedia.com Daily News)

Recently Victoria University in Australia hosted an exhibition entitled “Jewels of the Mediterranean: Malta and the Maltese.” Rare artefacts, including a piece of pottery from the Neolithic period were on display for five weeks. This exhibition featured aspects of Malta’s culture including its history, geology, language, religion, traditions, education and literature.

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Successful Malta exhibition in Victoria Australia (Maltamedia.com Daily News)

Radio review (Guardian Unlimited)

For all its focus on a literary genius in the evocative setting of Buenos Aires – cue much twinkly accordion playing – Libraries and Labyrinths: Borges and Me (Radio 4) also featured presenter Peter White talking frankly about blindness, literature, and the joys of urban grid systems such as that in the Argentine capital. White recalled visiting New York for the first time in his 30s.

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Radio review (Guardian Unlimited)

Photo by Kevin Pearcey (Greenville Advocate)

Fort Dale Academy’s Annual Eighth Grade Wax Museum featured poets, writers, and authors from English and American literature, as students entertained their parents, teachers and classmates with monologues and fantastic costumes and props.

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Photo by Kevin Pearcey (Greenville Advocate)