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The article focuses on the disappearance and subsequent discovery of the body of British poet, Gboyega Odubanjo, who went missing during a music festival in England.

Reports on the unveiling of a commemorative plaque for poet Ezra Pound outside the London, England, house where he lived from 1909 to 1914.

The article focuses on the 17th-century English writer John Wilmot, the second earl of Rochester, who is the subject of Laurence Dunmore's film "The Libertine," starring Johnny Depp. Wilmot was a notorious rake who self-destructed at a young age. When he was 18 he was imprisoned for abducting a wealthy heiress; he subsequently became a war hero and a favorite at court, where he was famous for his wit and debauchery. At 33 he was dead of syphilis and alcoholism. Wilmot's true claim on our attention is his poetry. The film is remarkably faithful to the facts of his life.

Reports that in Town End, England, a new center has been opened by poet Seamus Heaney to offer scholars access to a collection of manuscripts, books and other material belonging to English poet William Wordsworth. Background on the new Jerwood Center, located near Wordsworth's home, Dove Cottage, and the Wordsworth Museum; Mention of a program of poetry readings, initiated by Irish poet Paul Muldoon; Comments of Robert Woof, director of the Wordsworth Trust; Role of the Wordsworth Trust in expanding its colony of houses and other buildings in Town End; Preference of Wordsworth to come to Town End when the Lake District area opened up to wealthy British travelers.

LONDON -- The Kenyan poet Khadambi Asalache disguised stained and damp walls at his London town house with wooden filigree scenes of desert oases. He lived in an 1810s brick shoe box in the Lambeth section of south London, wedged between modernist housing blocks and a church graveyard. He bequeathed the place to the National Trust when he died in 2006, at 71. The National Trust is finishing a two-year restoration of the house and will let in trial tour groups next month. By next spring the property will be open to the public by appointment. Only 2,000 people a year will eventually be allowed inside, to minimize wear and tear on Mr. Asalache's silhouettes of palm trees, dancers, rosettes and giraffes. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Emanuel Litvinoff, an English-born Jewish poet known for his scathing verse indictment of T. S. Eliot's anti-Semitism -- and for reading it before an audience that happened to include Eliot -- died on Sept. 24 at his home in London. He was 96. His son Aaron confirmed the death. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

William Blake -- artist, poet and irritated ecstatic -- listed as his primary residence the Imagination, a combination of creative command post and psychological refuge where, as he put it, the eternal and the real meet. The place you might actually run into him, though, was London, where he was born in 1757 and spent nearly his whole life. Within the city he changed homes many times but found that each new one was much like the last. Wherever he ended up, it seemed he knew the neighbors. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Reports on the discovery of letters written by poet Shelley and his best friend Thomas Jefferson Hogg for Ralph Wedgwood in a dusty trunk in South London, England.

Profiles Jonny Hurst, poet laureate in charge of soccer chants, in England. Income of Hurst for a year's work; Significance of traditional chants to a soccer game in the country; Family background; Expertise of Hurst in the history of soccer.