The Manfreds’ Paul Jones: The world lost a poet but won a master of blues & jazz
HE WAS the voice of Manfred Mann, racking up unforgettable sixties’ hits like 5-4-3-2-1, Doo-Wah-Diddy and Pretty Flamingo. But that was after singer Paul Jones had turned his back on Oxford University, and after he’d turned down the chance to join the fledgling Rolling Stones… Daily Express :: Music Feed
Sylvia Plath: Newly discovered novella by tortured poet published 55 years after suicide
THERE’S a gravestone in the village of Heptonstall, West Yorkshire, that has struggled in vain for many years to be inconspicuous… it bears the inscription: “Sylvia Plath Hughes.” Daily Express :: Books Feed
Meet the tormented poet who juggled THREE lovers
WITH his thick-rimmed glasses, balding head and bookish appearance Philip Larkin wasn’t your stereotypical lothario. Yet he was as famous for consorting with three women simultaneously as he was for his poetry. Daily Express :: Books Feed
Leonardo DiCaprio playing Muslim poet Rumi branded OFFENSIVE as thousands sign petition
LEONARDO DI CAPRIO is embroiled in a huge race row over plans to cast him as the Persian Muslim poet Jalaluddin Rumi in a new film planned with Robert Downey Jr as Iranian mystic Shams of Tabriz. Daily Express :: Films Feed