Sean O'Brien wins poetry double
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Arts & entertainment: The TS Eliot prize has gone to the 2007 Forward prize winner - the first time the same collection has taken both awards in the same year
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A NOVEL full of explicit gay sex seduced the judges of the 2004 Man Booker Prize into picking its author for the Â£50,000 award. It was second time lucky for Alan Hollinghurst
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Avant-garde poet Michael Palmer has won the Wallace Stevens Award, a $100,000 prize given annually for "outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry."
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LONDON -- Andy O&#39;Brien&#39;s own goal allowed Charlton to earn a 1-1 tie yesterday with Newcastle, which failed to capture fourth spot in the Premier League standings.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Jim O'Brien won an appeal Thursday and can return to the college sidelines after he had been fired by Ohio State and essentially banned from coaching by the NCAA for paying a recruit.
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Billy Corgan's literary offering "Blinking With Fists" debuted at No. 24 on the New York Times Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers List. The tome also was the top selling poetry book in the United States in its first week out. Corgan recently ...
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A poem by one of America's best-loved   poets, Robert Frost, has been discovered 88 years after it was   handwritten in the front of a book and will be published next   week.
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Chantelle Newbery became the first Australian to win the Olympic women&#39;s platform diving title with a clearcut victory in the final on Sunday.
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Sonia O&#39;Sullivan was not despondent after missing out on an IAAF World Half-Marathon Championships medal in New Delhi today. &quot;It was tough, very hard from the very beginning of the race,&quot; admitted O&#39;Sullivan who finished in one hour 10minutes 33seconds.
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There were lots of birdies to be had out here yesterday, and many people will be happy to learn that Sean O'Hair had seven of them.
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Watertown's Chris O'Brien, a Catholic Conference hockey All-Star at Boston College High School who also played at the Berkshire School, has had a standout freshman season at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, N.H.
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THERE are times when the game is truly worth the candle, when you are in the stadium and conscious of the privilege. It was like that at Lansdowne Road yesterday as Ireland produced one of their great performances
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Sport: Katie O'Brien becames first British player to reach second round after beating Germany's Sandra Kloesel 6-3, 7-5.
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Ireland was the proud winner on Saturday of the 2006 World Oyster Opening Championship, beating off competition from 17 other countries to open 30 oysters in the fastest time.
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Playbill - Def Poetry Jam, the unique theatrical production of slam-style poetry which won a Tony Award for its Broadway engagement, is launching a new national tour which will take it to 51 cities.
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Recordings of Dylan Thomas, Robert Graves and others are added to an online poetry initiative.
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Every author tells a different story. Sean Rice meets the production line that is the mind of Castlebar-based Michael Mullen.