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Aon Celtic Art
The Aon Celtic Art and Illumination page
features the works of international artist Cari Buziak. Along with
Cari's other work, there are over 850 free Celtic clip art designs,
plus the opportunity to learn Celtic art history and styles, and learn
how to create a basic celtic knot.
Labi Siffre
Perhaps best known for the song "(Something
Inside) So Strong", poet, song writer, playwright, Labi Siffre
is a talent wordsmith. Written for the black community of apartheid
South Africa, and for all victims of injustice,the Ivor Novello Award
winning song"(Something Inside) So Strong" has been adopted
as an anthem by the marginalised and dispossessed in about the world.
Labi Siffre has also made a moving, and disturbing impact as a poet,
"live" and on radio and TV. His uncompromising stance on
civil and human rights have further enhanced his reputation as continues
to develop and grow as an artist. And, in his own words, "its
only just begun..."
Megan Burke
Elfwood - the worlds largest home to
SciFi/Fantasy art - is unique, nonprofit virtual world, of over fifteen
hundred Science Fiction/Fantasy artists and writers displaying approximately
twenty thousand works of art. Elfwood strives to promote the creation
of art and fiction as a serious and meaningful hobby for the young
generation, introducing them to painting and writing, helping them
to create their own material and finally giving them the option to
publish what they have created. One page I have particular enjoyed
viewing is the works of Megan Burke.
Salamander Oasis Trust
The Oasis poets came together in Cairo
in World War Two, and published a first selection of their wartime
poetry in 1942. After the war, the Salamander Oasis Trust was set
up to collect, edit and publish not only the original Cairo poems
but other poetry written during the Second World War (1939-1945).
Constituting a unique record of wartime poetry - described by one
publisher as "the autobiography of a generation.", some
17,000 poems were collected over 10 years, and all the original manuscripts
are deposited at the Imperial War Museum. Unlike the better-known
poems of the First World War which were mainly written by officers
serving on the Western Front, the Oasis poems were written by all
ranks in battle areas all over the world.
Kipling Society
The Kipling Society is for everyone interested
in the prose and verse, and life and times, of poet, children's author,
novelist, and master of the short story, Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936).
It is one of the most active and enduring literary societies in Britain
and, is the only one which focuses solely on Kipling and his place
in English Literature, attracts a worldwide membership. The Society
is a voluntary, non-profit-making organisation, and a Registered Charity.
The activities include: arranging a regular programme of meetings
in London, publishing the Kipling Journal, and maintaining the Kipling
Library in City University in London, and providing speakers on request.
the Shakespeare Oxford Society
Will the real William Shakespeare please
stand up! The Shakespeare Oxford Society is the second oldest continuously
operating organization involved in the two-centuries old Shakespeare
authorship debate. Exploring the secretive world of Elizabethan society;
literature, politics, plus how and why the Shakespeare authorship
ruse came into being, the purpose of the Society is to document and
establish Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (1550-1604), as the
universally recognized author of the works of William Shakespeare.
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