Emily Dickinson
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Editorial: This year we have learned to mark time once more – bringing frustration and despair, but also new pleasures
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The lives of women from history, from Catherine the Great to Shirley Jackson, are being brought to the screen with a radical focus on character over facts
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This fizzing response to seeing the Northern Lights steps carefully around cosmic visions
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2 out of 5 stars.A half-baked comedy series rewrites the life of the American poet as a defiant feminist who ignores chores and delivers clunky dialogue
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4 out of 5 stars.Poems on displacement by Benjamin Zephaniah, Brian Bilston, Dickinson and Auden drive a weighty new song cycle by Mark-Anthony Turnage, delivered masterfully by Allan Clayton
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Recent trailers for Greta Gerwig’s take on Louisa May Alcott and Hailee Steinfeld as a punk rock Emily Dickinson suggest a resurgence for 1860s literary women
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Harper Lee never wanted Go Set a Watchman brought out, Sylvia Plath’s diary was burned by Ted Hughes – the controversial world of literary legacies
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Notebook They're patient, complex and poetic – so stop calling them snowflakes
Christina PattersonThe writer Christina Patterson says she has seen the future of poetry, and it’s in safe hands
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5 out of 5 stars.Festival tries to avoid controversial statements, but Russian-German pianist Igor Levit sneaked European Union theme through in first hour of season
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Sarah Water’s Fingersmith is transported to 1930s Korea with aplomb, while Cynthia Nixon excels as Emily Dickson
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Sex and the City star Cynthia Nixon plays the great 19th century American poet Emily Dickinson in the new film from British director Terence Davies, of Sunset Song and House of Mirth renown1:52
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Amid so many ominous events in the wider world, writing poetry is a small but significant way to sustain our spirits. For one last time, please share yours
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From fan mail, to love letters, to a freed slave’s reply to his former master – this eclectic mix enlightens, delights, and captures the correspondents’ inner lives
Carol Rumens's poem of the week Poem of the week: Under the Light, yet under by Emily Dickinson