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The UK’s first and so far only female poet laureate has written a sonnet to honour England’s Lionesses and their forerunners.Carol Ann Duffy, who said she grew up in a “footballing family”, pays homage to the trailblazers behind today’s team in We See You, a poem described as a “team talk” to the nation.It is “an ode to every woman from the pitch to the boardroom, the communities and grassroots who are helping to level the playing field”, said Duffy, who was poet laureate from 2009 to 2019.The poem was composed for the…

In the late David Cavanagh’s definitive history of Creation Records, My Magpie Eyes Are Hungry for the Prize, the 80s indie band Felt are depicted existing in a continual state of luckless disarray. Their hugely original albums ultimately prove influential – on Belle and Sebastian, the Charlatans and Manic Street Preachers among others – and provoke a rabid cult following, but everything else goes wrong. Band members depart with alarming regularity, career-boosting magazine cover features are pulled at the last minute, a…

Martin Duffy, who played keyboards for Primal Scream and Felt, has died aged 55, his former Charlatans bandmate Tim Burgess has confirmed.Duffy was born in Birmingham on 18 May 1967 and grew up in Rednal.He joined the indie band Felt in 1985 after frontman Lawrence put up a notice in the Birmingham branch of Virgin records advertising for a guitarist that read: “Do You Want To Be A Rock ‘N’ Roll Star?” and a man recommended Duffy.Duffy played on Primal Scream’s first two albums, 1987’s Sonic Flower Groove and 1989’s…

| We Walked in Clouds is a YA graphic novel written by Deborah Noyes and M Duffy, an interpretation of the 1692 Salem witch trials based on primary source documents, "a graphic-novel telling of the Salem Witch Trials in 1692, creating a narrative out of the historical context and what we can imagine of those accused." World rights to We Walked in Clouds were bought by Patrice Caldwell, while at Disney-Hyperion, but as part of a deal that saw a thousand titles bought from Disney Hyperion by Hachette Book Group, to be…

We usually think of hospitals as somewhere safe, where patients get better or move on. The quote from Dante’s The Divine Comedy prefacing Austin Duffy’s latest novel implies an extreme version of this liminal space. This is underlined when his protagonist suggests his workplace resembles “one of those medieval paintings of hell, swarming with devils and the wretched”. The demons are the medical staff “directing the show”, the wretched are their helpless patients.The unnamed narrator is one of a trio of surgical interns on…

We’ll find out more about the future of Disney Parks and Resorts at the upcoming D23 Expo. Wonderful World of Dreams is comprised of pavilions and panels filled with Disney Parks magic from around the globe. Imagineering will have a big presence at the expo with behind the scenes looks at Tiana’s Bayou Adventure, Epcot’s expansion, new Frozen-themed experiences, Disney Cruise Line, live entertainment, retail shopping and more.Here’s the listing of officially announced panels:Inside Look at the Society of Explorers and…

Austin Duffy, 47, was born in Dundalk and lives in Howth, north of Dublin, where he works as an oncologist at the city’s Mater hospital. His two previous novels, This Living and Immortal Thing, shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish novel of the year, and Ten Days, about early dementia, were both set in New York, where Duffy met his wife, the painter Naomi Taitz Duffy, after winning a research fellowship to work at the Memorial Sloan Kettering cancer centre in Manhattan in 2006. His new novel, The Night Interns, follows…

Instagram is blocking posts that mention abortion from public view, in some cases requiring its users to confirm their age before letting them view posts that offer information about the procedure. Over the last day, several Instagram accounts run by abortion rights advocacy groups have found their posts or stories hidden with a warning that describes the posts as "sensitive content." Instagram said it was working to fix the problem Tuesday, describing it as a "bug." In one example, Instagram covered a post on a page…