Reaction to Hilary Mantel winning the Booker:

Video of Mantel talking about Wolf Hall
Did the right woman win?
Rescusing the Tudor court from cliche
“I have no inclination to read a book set in Tudor England.”

Today is National Poetry Day:

TS Eliot is the Nation’s Favourite Poet, apparently. I can assure you he isn’t mine.
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