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Do you like Kipling?

The answer to “Do you like Kipling?” is obviously “I don’t know, I’ve never kipled!” There is one poem by Rudyard Kipling which I learned as a child and which encapsulated so much of my imaginary world...

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Shark week

A favourite website of mine is www.poets.org ; it has a wealth of poems from every age and from every corner of the world but it has much more. It has biographies of poets, articles about poetry,...

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Kim’s game

Today as part of our party activities at my English conversation group we played Kim’s game. This is a party game I remember from when I went to parties when I was a child; there is a tray of random...

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For the want of a nail

A friend rang me earlier to ask whether I rememberer a poem which was a variation on the ‘For a want of a nail’ verse; he thought the poem was either by Kipling or Thomas hardy, and replaced the word...

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Maverick Kim’s game

Kim’s game was invented (or named) by Rudyard Kipling from his novel ‘Kim’ about a young boy learning the tricks of being a spy… This isn’t actually Kim’s game because in that game the objects are...

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If…

Rudyard Kipling’s stories and poems are still popular today, but he has earned a reputation as a jingoist and a racist, opinions which are challenged through two books,  ‘Kipling and War’, edited by...

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Hurrying waves in divers eddies go

Arthur Weir was born in Montreal in 1864, and died young in 1902. Like other Canadian poets whose sonnets I’ve recently shared, Weir worked as a journalist although he had studied chemistry at...

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Young people reading

Sorry about my uninteresting title, but I am writing about young people reading; much anxiety has been expressed about young people no longer reading – reading books is what is meant, young people read...

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