A Manx poet, actor, and playwright has received the Isle of Man's top cultural award. Annie Kissack has been awarded the Reih Bleeaney Vanannan, or Manannan's Choice of the Year, by Culture Vannin.

Italy is often thought of as a political laboratory, anticipating events in other countries: fascism in the 1920s; the showman-businessman turned politician in the 1990s; populism in the 2010s. Great ...

For many, the fact that the success of a song lyric tends to hinge upon on its accompanying music, the voices that sing it, and the performance itself means that it cannot be considered poetry.

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