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Ossuaries is a 2010 poetry collection by Canadian writer Dionne Brand, published by McClelland & Stewart while she was serving as Toronto's poet laureate.It won the 2011 Griffin Poetry Prize award for a work by a Canadian poet.
An ossuary is a chest, box, building, well, or site made to serve as the final resting place of human skeletal remains. They are frequently used where burial space is scarce. A body is first buried in a temporary grave, then after some years the skeletal remains are removed and placed in an ossuary ("os" is "bone" in Latin [1]).
The Graveyard Book is a young adult novel written by the English author Neil Gaiman, simultaneously published in Britain and America in 2008. The Graveyard Book traces the story of the boy Nobody "Bod" Owens, who is adopted and reared by the supernatural occupants of a graveyard after his family is brutally murdered.
The Graveyard School is an indefinite literary grouping that binds together a wide variety of authors; what makes a poem a "graveyard" poem remains open to critical dispute. At its narrowest, the term "Graveyard School" refers to four poems: Thomas Gray's " Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard ", Thomas Parnell's "Night-Piece on Death", Robert ...
Disney is hitting pause on its adaptation of “The Graveyard Book” in the wake of sexual assault allegations leveled against the book’s author Neil Gaiman. The film from director Marc Forster ...
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M Is for Magic is a collection of child-friendly short fiction by Neil Gaiman.. The stories and poems were selected from previously published works, [1] with the exception of "The Witch's Headstone", which is an excerpt from the later-published novel, The Graveyard Book.
The Caiaphas ossuary is a highly decorated ossuary twice inscribed "Joseph, son of Caiaphas" which held the bones of a 60-year-old male. The limestone ossuary measures c. 37 cm (15 in) high by 75 cm (30 in) long and is housed in the Israel Museum, Jerusalem.