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Last dispatch from Finland

Extract from Dispatch #8 Forests, rocks, lakes by Christopher Meredith 

A couple of days later, I went to an art opening in the Galleria Becker, next door to the Kirjailijatalo.

The work was a series of constructions mainly made from the detritus of abandoned rural places. One ...more

Five authors, five languages

The Exchange is celebrating the publication in Welsh of a children's book - Y Pussaka Hud - written by five authors in five countries - Wales, Finland, Catalunya, The Czech Republic and Ireland. Menna Elfyn is the author from Wales. The story follows the adventures of a brother ...more

‘Pictures, tongues, cities’

"This was the modern Latin at work between two students. A sort of great, bland linguistic bus station that kept on growing, whose architecture didn’t matter so long as it more or less functioned, where ideas half met, where some of us attempted briefly to renegotiate a shifting ...more

Gillian Clarke and Deryn Rees-Jones shortlisted for the 2012 T. S. Eliot prize

The Poetry Book Society is pleased to announce the shortlist for the 2012 T S Eliot Prize for Poetry.

Judges Carol Ann Duffy (Chair), Michael Longley and David Morley have chosen six collections from the 131 books submitted by publishers, which join the four PBS Choices to make ...more