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Philip Larkin RSS feedLarkin letters reveal love for parents he pilloried in poem
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Philip Larkin may accuse his mum and dad in verse of 'f***ing him up', but new letters reveal he shared a close bond with his parents2009-11-23T09:38:09ZFamily issues in First Day Of The Rest Of Your Life
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This smash hit at the French box office, The First Day Of The Rest Of Your Life, is an extended portrait of an ordinary family, sketched out over 12 years2009-11-20T12:56:36ZThe dark side of free love: Mamas and Papas
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The incestuous, drug-fuelled relationship between Mamas and Papas star John Phillips and his daughter Mackenzie has cast a different light
on the era of peace and love. One London writer who survived the early Seventies remembers how boundaries were blurred and lives ruined2009-09-28T07:33:13ZPlease don’t tell me my hero has feet of clay
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I am in mourning for one of my favourite Sixties pop songs, California Dreamin’, by The Mamas and the Papas2009-09-25T08:03:18ZCelebs are now invading the world of poetry
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Celebrity endorsements are the latest proof of poetry's new-found fashionability2009-09-03T07:21:58ZYes, give me bad writers with bad lives
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A literary biography without a sex-Nazi, child-slavery, and/or hamster-rape angle is now dead in the water2009-08-17T07:13:54ZTennis - it's a fortnight, not a game
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SPORTING events turn us all into instant experts. Cometh the World Cup, cometh our intimate knowledge of "catenaccio" and Cameroonian goalkeepers. Then, when the jamboree folds up, so does our dossier of facile judgments.2009-06-29T07:50:56ZPixie and Peaches Geldof are both out on the pull
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Pixie and Peaches Geldof both snogged members of Indie band The Virgins at the weekend2009-06-29T12:43:49ZNorth Korea ‘going postal’ is truly scary
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As the North Korea story unfolds, I wonder whether we are watching a nuclear state going postal. This is very scary stuff indeed2009-05-29T07:41:08ZForget 'honorary jokes': Carol Ann can show us why poetry matters
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With its token £5,750-a-year salary and case of wine for your trouble, our Poet Laureateship has long been what the outgoing laureate Andrew Motion has affectionately termed an "honorary joke"2009-05-01T08:26:40ZTen years late, this lesbian icon is the right poet for the nation
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After considerable dithering and havering, Carol Ann Duffy has agreed to take on the position of Poet Laureate2009-05-01T14:50:21ZThe two poets in Motion's slipstream
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2009-04-29T09:20:33ZF***! – New film In the Loop restores swearing to an art form
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In the Loop, the film extension of The Thick of It, isn't released for three weeks yet but it is already making waves2009-03-27T09:04:39ZThere are no holds barred with poets in a prize fight
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2009-03-06T08:54:31ZI confess I have 25 secrets to tell you
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The new Facebook phenomenon is "25 random things about me". Everyone from John Prescott to Nick Clegg has signed up. Somewhere between the confessional and therapy, it lets you catalogue the minutiae of your life. You then "tag" 25 friends to do the same.2009-02-20T09:11:51ZFor ****'s sake, the swearing Mayor speaks the language of London
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According to a leaked minute, Boris Johnson uttered the most commonly employed fricative expletive no fewer than 10 times during a recent phone conversation with the Home Affairs select committee chairman, Keith Vaz2009-02-13T08:41:49ZGet a life, you lovers of misery memoirs
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Constance Briscoe, the author of the misery memoir Ugly, is being sued for libel by her mother, Carmen Briscoe-Mitchell, who says it's fiction2008-11-21T09:33:02ZNothing is sacred when it comes to being profane
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Is nothing sacred? Children's novelist Jacqueline Wilson had her latest bestseller My Sister Jodie removed from Asda shelves after a complaint about the use of the word "twat" in the text2008-08-26T07:50:54Z'I love Anna Friel... I just won't marry her': David Thewlis' surprise confession
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As David Thewlis plays his most haunting role, he makes a surprise confession about his relationship with Pushing Daisies star Anna Friel.2008-08-07T22:52:35ZThe original toga party animals
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The behaviour of Nero and his lover Poppaea in The Coronation of Poppaea plumb a level of immorality rarely exceeded in opera before Berg's Lulu.2008-07-31T23:00:00ZDown and out in Smithfield Market
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How apt that London waiter Ross Raisin has been nominated for the £60,000 Dylan Thomas Prize, for authors under the age of 302008-07-15T08:08:02ZHello! is the perfect place for our royals
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The Queen has run into flak for appearing in Hello! magazine's photo album of the wedding of Peter Phillips and his Canadian girlfriend. An MP said the public expected her to rise above such tackiness. "She is the Queen, not a footballer's wife." A Palace spokesman has conceded it should never have happened and promised "it will never ever happen again"2008-05-23T07:58:53ZIt’s all too much
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Gastropubs have come a long way in a few years. Now one of the swankiest - The Pantechnicon Rooms - has opened in the very heart of Knightsbridge.2008-05-13T23:00:00ZFrom ice-cream kid to Oscar glory: English Patient director Anthony Minghella dies of brain haemorrhage at 54
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Oscar-winning director Anthony Minghella died suddenly yesterday from a 'fatal haemorrhage' after surgery for throat cancer. The 54-year-old, who was best known for his films The English Patient, Truly, Madly, Deeply and Cold Mountain, had told only his family and closest friends about his condition2008-03-18T14:00:05ZStand up for Larkin, the true poet of the people
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When Philip Larkin died in 1985, he was much the best-loved poet since the war (with the possible exception of Betjeman). That all changed with the publication of Larkin's previously uncollected poems and, in 1992, his Selected Letters. They revealed a lot more about Larkin and earned him excoriation as a racist and misogynist, fascist and porn addict2008-02-29T13:57:18ZSpinning a yarn - just the job for Campbell
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Perhaps we should not be so surprised by the news that Alastair Campbell has become a novelist at the age of 50. After all, as a Downing Street spin doctor, he was renowned for telling tall stories and stretching credulity to the limit. To be published in November, his debut, All in the Mind, is the story of a psychiatrist, his patients and family and "the pressures they bring to bear on each other'' over a long weekend2008-02-26T08:25:01ZDVDs of the week
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Peter O'Toole's Oscar-nominated role in Venus, a strong take on terrorism in Catch A Fire and a compilation from Roxy Music are among the DVDs of the week.2007-07-23T23:00:00ZFinding room to Bloom
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Hollywood heart-throb Orlando Bloom tells Siobhan Murphy why he has left the blockbusters behind and headed for the West End stage.2007-07-03T09:51:14ZUnholy row about God
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Nicholas de Jongh fails to find enlightenment in new play On Religion, which offers only bland, mouldy views on the appeal of faith versus atheism.2006-12-06T00:00:00Z