Could you win the 'Ugly Competition'?

Monday, September 3, 2012 Meet The Hopefuls Entering 'The Ugly Competition' Check out the hopeful contestants in Spain's 'Ugly Competition' - could you do better? CLICK ON THE PICTURE TO SEE MORE HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Caryl Churchill, English playwright "You're pretending this isn't your life. You think it's going to happen some other time. When you're dead you'll realise you were alive now." Photos From The End Of A Rainbow 'Blade Runner' Oscar Pistorius Immortalised In Paint Can You Tell Which Card Is Real And Which Has Been Drawn By Hand? The Theatre Of War Jeans Dean: Meet The Artist Who Really, REALLY Likes Denim... BLOG POSTS Benjamin Zephaniah: Youth Unemployment: I Wanted to Use Poetry to Speak for Myself When I left school at 13, I didn't know my future would be in poetry - that's something that developed over time. Many other young people don't know what direction they want to steer their lives in and this is where I think Job Ready will really make a really big difference to lives. Tom Sperlinger: Review: Deryn Rees-Jones, Burying the Wren 'Now where?' asks the speaker in 'Three Glances at a Field of Poppies', the opening poem in Deryn Rees-Jones' new collection, Burying the Wren. This question can be asked with an emphasis on either word: 'Now where?' or 'Now where?' In either case, there is a sense of distance already travelled and a fear of being lost. There is none of the breezy continuity with which one may ask, 'Where now?' Sandy Thomas: Hello and Goodbye There's 2 small notebooks with jottings about shows and sights and sounds that I'll be looking through and posting from for the next couple of days. The highs... the lows... the sticky toffee pudding. But first I'll be driving my mom back to Dead Lake (unfortunate name, but a very nice lake). Rosy Greenlees: Why Reyner Banham Was Right The brilliant scholar and critic Reyner Banham was best known for his treatises on architecture, where he would compare ice cream vans with mediaeval cathedrals and explain the importance of bike sheds. However, he was originally trained as an aero engineer and it was this background of actually making stuff that he drew on when in 1973 he delivered a lecture entitled Sparks from a Plastic Anvil: The Craftsman in Technology. Hilary Burrage: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912), Britain's Foremost Black Classical Composer: The Centenary Legacy one hundred years after his death, the story and legacy of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, the British child of mixed heritage born with little initial privilege but so much to offer, now unfolds.

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