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2013: shortlisted for Carnegie Medal for The Weight of Water [3] 2015: shortlisted for Carnegie Medal for Apple and Rain [4] 2016: The Bookseller' YA Book Prize for One [5] Irish Children's Book of the Year for One [6] Carnegie Medal for One [7] 2017: Red House Children's Book Award for older readers for One [8]
In 1976, Gilpin was awarded the Walt Whitman Award by the Academy of American Poets for her book of poems titled The Hocus-Pocus of the Universe. She was selected by William Stafford. [2] Her work was also published in the magazine Poetry. [3] Gilpin later wrote another book of poetry, titled The Weight of a Soul, which was published ...
"The Weight" was written by Robbie Robertson, who found the tune by strumming idly on his guitar, a 1951 Martin D-28, when he noticed that the interior included a stamp noting that it was manufactured in Nazareth, Pennsylvania (C. F. Martin & Company is situated there) and he started crafting the lyrics as he played.
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Sedgefield, Walter John, ed. and trans., King Alfred’s Version of the Consolations of Boethius (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1900) (PDF) Foys, Martin et al. (eds.): Old English versions of the Boethian Meters are being edited to digital images of their manuscript pages (including UV images) and Junius's transcriptions, and translated, in the Old ...
Elizabeth Acevedo is an American poet and author. [1] In September 2022, the Poetry Foundation named her the year's Young People's Poet Laureate. [2]Acevedo is the author of the young adult novels The Poet X, With the Fire on High, and Clap When You Land.
Mercredi's mother was a residential school Survivor, which formed the inspiration for many of the poems in his most recent book, 215. [5] In 2020, Mercredi became the second (after Di Brandt) Poet Laureate of Winnipeg. [6] In 2021, he won the Manitowapow Award at the Manitoba Book Awards. [7]
Print this story. From the 16th century to the 19th, scurvy killed around 2 million sailors, more than warfare, shipwrecks and syphilis combined. It was an ugly, smelly death, too, beginning with rattling teeth and ending with a body so rotted out from the inside that its victims could literally be startled to death by a loud noise.