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Nick Jones

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Join Seen & Unseen for a Back to School reader lunch on Zoom.
Thursday 19th September 12.30-1.15pm

September is back to school, college and university for so many. Our next reader lunch, will discuss such new starts. Join us and regular Seen & Unseen writer Henna Cundill. As well as lecturing at Aberdeen University, she's written on the psychology of anxiety and school refusal. Join us. We’ll provide the chat, you just bring your lunch.

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Advent

Christmas survival

Culture

Poetry

23 December 2024

1 min read

Christmas countdown day 23: the poets

Tennyson, Eliot, Rossetti and L’Engle: at Christmas, sorrow doesn’t preclude joy.

Beatrice Scudeler

Beatrice writes on literature, religion, the arts, and the family. Her published work can be found here.

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