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      <title>'Strange and Wonderful': Editing Pope's Dunciads for today's readers</title>
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      <title>Collecting the eighteenth century at Winchester College</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:41:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Investigating figurative proficiency at different levels of second language writing</title>
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      <title>MA Literature, Culture and Modernity: Victorian and Modernist</title>
      <link>http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/students/courses/postgraduate/taught/english/literature-culture-modernity.aspx</link>
      <description>New postgraduate Masters programme based in the Centre for Cultural Modernity.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 16:12:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The Nineteenth-Century Press in the Digital Age</title>
      <link>http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2012/19th-century-press.aspx</link>
      <description>Palgrave Macmillan publish Dr James Mussell.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:41:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <media:content url="http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2012/19th-century-press.aspx" />
      <guid>http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2012/19th-century-press.aspx</guid>
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      <title>Grammar guide is most borrowed library book in Westminster</title>
      <link>http://www.london24.com/news/quirky-london/grammar_guide_is_most_borrowed_library_book_in_westminster_1_1176146</link>
      <description>Dr Martin Hewings' 'Advanced Grammar in Use'.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 09:50:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <media:content url="http://www.london24.com/news/quirky-london/grammar_guide_is_most_borrowed_library_book_in_westminster_1_1176146" />
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      <media:thumbnail url="http://www.birmingham.ac.uk%2fImages%2fCollege-ArtsLaw-only%2fenglish%2fnews%2f2012%2fgrammar-guide.jpg" />
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      <title>Researching language and language use through corpora</title>
      <link>http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/corpus/news/2012/ccr-dubai.aspx</link>
      <description>Paul Thompson visit to the British University in Dubai.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 10:08:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <media:content url="http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/corpus/news/2012/ccr-dubai.aspx" />
      <guid>http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/corpus/news/2012/ccr-dubai.aspx</guid>
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      <title>Essential Statistics for Corpus Linguistics with R</title>
      <link>http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/corpus/events/R-workshop.aspx</link>
      <description>Four day workshop at the University of Birmingham in March.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 10:08:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <media:content url="http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/corpus/events/R-workshop.aspx" />
      <guid>http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/corpus/events/R-workshop.aspx</guid>
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      <title>How to humanise Thatcher</title>
      <link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/jan/05/phyllida-lloyd-iron-lady?INTCMP=SRCH</link>
      <description>Drama and English graduate Phyllida Lloyd interviewed in The Guardian on directing Meryl Streep in 'The Iron Lady'.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 09:52:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <media:content url="http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/jan/05/phyllida-lloyd-iron-lady?INTCMP=SRCH" />
      <guid>http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/jan/05/phyllida-lloyd-iron-lady?INTCMP=SRCH</guid>
      <media:thumbnail url="http://www.birmingham.ac.uk%2fImages%2fCollege-ArtsLaw-only%2fnews%2fscreenshots%2fguardian-co-uk.jpg" />
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      <title>Summer/Winter School</title>
      <link>http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/corpus/news/2012/SummerWinter-School.aspx</link>
      <description>Announcement of the University of Birmingham's first Birmingham/Melbourne Summer/Winter School in Applied Linguistics, 2-13 July 2012.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:56:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <media:content url="http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/corpus/news/2012/SummerWinter-School.aspx" />
      <guid>http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/corpus/news/2012/SummerWinter-School.aspx</guid>
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      <title>Spanish Association of Corpus Linguistics</title>
      <link>http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/corpus/news/2012/cilc12.aspx</link>
      <description>Paul Thompson will be an invited plenary speaker at the International Meeting of the Spanish Association of Corpus Linguistics (Asociación Española de LINgüística de COrpus), to be held in Jaén 22-24 March 2012.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:56:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <media:content url="http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/corpus/news/2012/cilc12.aspx" />
      <guid>http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/corpus/news/2012/cilc12.aspx</guid>
      <media:thumbnail url="http://www.birmingham.ac.uk%2fImages%2fCollege-ArtsLaw-only%2fcorpus%2fpaulthompsonthumb.jpg" />
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      <title>December graduations</title>
      <link>http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2011/cels2011/december-graduations.aspx</link>
      <description>Video interviews with staff and students of the Centre for English Language Studies.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:57:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <media:content url="http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2011/cels2011/december-graduations.aspx" />
      <guid>http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2011/cels2011/december-graduations.aspx</guid>
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      <title>Classroom-based, mixed methods research into the influence of transcribing, reporting, and task repetition on student spoken task performances</title>
      <link>http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2011/jason-moser.aspx</link>
      <description>Video interview with Jason Moser.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:54:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <media:content url="http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2011/jason-moser.aspx" />
      <guid>http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2011/jason-moser.aspx</guid>
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      <title>Blog-assisted language learning in the EFL writing classroom</title>
      <link>http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2011/cels2011/blog-assisted.aspx</link>
      <description>Congratulations to John Lin Ming Huei, who successfully defended his PhD thesis in December 2011.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 15:42:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <media:content url="http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2011/cels2011/blog-assisted.aspx" />
      <guid>http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2011/cels2011/blog-assisted.aspx</guid>
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      <title>Helena's fantasies (part 1)</title>
      <link>http://bloggingshakespeare.com/shakespearience-3-helenas-fantasies-part-1</link>
      <description>Professor Ewan Fernie writes on Shakespearience for the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 11:14:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <media:content url="http://bloggingshakespeare.com/shakespearience-3-helenas-fantasies-part-1" />
      <guid>http://bloggingshakespeare.com/shakespearience-3-helenas-fantasies-part-1</guid>
      <media:thumbnail url="http://www.birmingham.ac.uk%2fImages%2fCollege-ArtsLaw-only%2fshakespeare%2fnews%2f2011%2fhelenas-fantasies.jpg" />
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      <title>Chinese lecture tour</title>
      <link>http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2011/chinese-lecture-tour.aspx</link>
      <description>Wolfgang Teubert visiting Anyang, Beijing, Xinxiang and Luoyang.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:29:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <media:content url="http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2011/chinese-lecture-tour.aspx" />
      <guid>http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2011/chinese-lecture-tour.aspx</guid>
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      <title>Doing decision-making: using real meetings for Business English training</title>
      <link>http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2011/dubrovnik.aspx</link>
      <description>Almut Koester speaking in Dubrovnik.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:23:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <media:content url="http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2011/dubrovnik.aspx" />
      <guid>http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2011/dubrovnik.aspx</guid>
      <media:thumbnail url="http://www.birmingham.ac.uk%2fImages%2fCollege-ArtsLaw-only%2fstaff%2fenglish%2fkoester-almut-Cropped-94x82.jpg" />
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      <title>Stylistic analysis of short stories</title>
      <link>http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2011/stylistic-analysis-short-stories.aspx</link>
      <description>Michael Toolan to speak in Leicester and Helsinki.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:17:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <media:content url="http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2011/stylistic-analysis-short-stories.aspx" />
      <guid>http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2011/stylistic-analysis-short-stories.aspx</guid>
      <media:thumbnail url="http://www.birmingham.ac.uk%2fImages%2fCollege-ArtsLaw-only%2fstaff%2fenglish%2ftoolan-michael-Cropped-94x82.jpg" />
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      <title>JACET Kansai chapter conference and the Japan Association for English Corpus Linguistics</title>
      <link>http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2011/jacet.aspx</link>
      <description>Speaking invites for Susan Hunston.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:17:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <media:content url="http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2011/jacet.aspx" />
      <guid>http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2011/jacet.aspx</guid>
      <media:thumbnail url="http://www.birmingham.ac.uk%2fImages%2fCollege-ArtsLaw-only%2fstaff%2fenglish%2fhunston-susan-Cropped-94x82.jpg" />
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      <title>The CARE Fellowship Programme</title>
      <link>http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/facilities/care/news/2011/fellowship.aspx</link>
      <description>Deadline for applications - 6 January 2012</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 13:27:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <media:content url="http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/facilities/care/news/2011/fellowship.aspx" />
      <guid>http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/facilities/care/news/2011/fellowship.aspx</guid>
      <media:thumbnail url="http://www.birmingham.ac.uk%2fImages%2fCollege-ArtsLaw-only%2fcare%2fnews%2fcare-fellowship.jpg" />
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      <title>Using learner corpora to connect with students' cultures</title>
      <link>http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2011/cels2011/kotesol.aspx</link>
      <description>Nick Groom at the KOTESOL International Conference in Seoul.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <media:content url="http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2011/cels2011/kotesol.aspx" />
      <guid>http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2011/cels2011/kotesol.aspx</guid>
      <media:thumbnail url="http://www.birmingham.ac.uk%2fImages%2fCollege-ArtsLaw-only%2fcels%2fnews%2f2011%2flearner-corpora.jpg" />
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      <title>Innovating EFL Teaching in Asia</title>
      <link>http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2011/cels2011/innovating-efl.aspx</link>
      <description>New publication from CELS tutors and alumni.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <media:content url="http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2011/cels2011/innovating-efl.aspx" />
      <guid>http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2011/cels2011/innovating-efl.aspx</guid>
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      <title>The Language of Scientific Discovery</title>
      <link>http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2011/garry-plappert.aspx</link>
      <description>Congratulations to Garry Plappert who successfully defended his PhD thesis in October 2011.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 18:23:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <media:content url="http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2011/garry-plappert.aspx" />
      <guid>http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2011/garry-plappert.aspx</guid>
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      <title>Identity in the Media</title>
      <link>http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2011/hanna-bulawka.aspx</link>
      <description>Congratulations to Hanna Bulawka who successfully defended her PhD thesis in October 2011.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 16:17:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <media:content url="http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2011/hanna-bulawka.aspx" />
      <guid>http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2011/hanna-bulawka.aspx</guid>
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      <title>Connecting West Midlands communities with linguistic heritage</title>
      <link>http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/research/projects/vernon/joinin.aspx</link>
      <description>Video and written report from undergraduate research scholar Luke Darbyshire.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 16:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <media:content url="http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/research/projects/vernon/joinin.aspx" />
      <guid>http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/research/projects/vernon/joinin.aspx</guid>
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      <title>How mentors are opening the door to university</title>
      <link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-15592755</link>
      <description>English graduate and teacher Charlotte Gough interview by the BBC about mentor scheme.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 11:44:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <media:content url="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-15592755" />
      <guid>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-15592755</guid>
      <media:thumbnail url="http://www.birmingham.ac.uk%2fImages%2fCollege-ArtsLaw-only%2fnews%2fscreenshots%2fbbc-news-screenshot.jpg" />
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      <title>Art and Literature season</title>
      <link>http://barber.org.uk/news_artandwriting.html</link>
      <description>Members of staff from the English Department took part in an event at the university's Barber Institute, reading and talking about poems connected with paintings in the Barber.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 10:59:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <media:content url="http://barber.org.uk/news_artandwriting.html" />
      <guid>http://barber.org.uk/news_artandwriting.html</guid>
      <media:thumbnail url="http://www.birmingham.ac.uk%2fImages%2fCollege-ArtsLaw-only%2fenglish%2fnews%2fbarber-literature.jpg" />
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      <title>Chapter in book</title>
      <link>http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2011/toolan-chapter.aspx</link>
      <description>Michael Toolan sees chapter included in book.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 10:25:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <media:content url="http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2011/toolan-chapter.aspx" />
      <guid>http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2011/toolan-chapter.aspx</guid>
      <media:thumbnail url="http://www.birmingham.ac.uk%2fImages%2fCollege-ArtsLaw-only%2fenglish%2fnews%2ftelecin-thumb.jpg" />
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      <title>Almut Koester delivers paper</title>
      <link>http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2011/koester-paper.aspx</link>
      <description>Her paper was on 'The contribution of research on workplace discourse to the teaching of English for Occupational and Professional Purposes'.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 10:25:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <media:content url="http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2011/koester-paper.aspx" />
      <guid>http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2011/koester-paper.aspx</guid>
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      <title>Susan Hunston publication</title>
      <link>http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2011/corpus-approaches.aspx</link>
      <description>Her latest monograph, Corpus Approaches to Evaluation: phraseology and evaluative language was published in September 2011 by Routledge.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 10:24:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <media:content url="http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2011/corpus-approaches.aspx" />
      <guid>http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2011/corpus-approaches.aspx</guid>
      <media:thumbnail url="http://www.birmingham.ac.uk%2fImages%2fCollege-ArtsLaw-only%2fenglish%2fnews%2fhunston-book-thumb.jpg" />
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      <title>Coffee morning for visiting scholars</title>
      <link>http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2011/coffee-morning.aspx</link>
      <description>On 12th October the Centre for Advanced Research in English (CARE) hosted a 'coffee morning' for all its CARE visiting scholars.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 10:24:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <media:content url="http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2011/coffee-morning.aspx" />
      <guid>http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2011/coffee-morning.aspx</guid>
      <media:thumbnail url="http://www.birmingham.ac.uk%2fImages%2fCollege-ArtsLaw-only%2fenglish%2fnews%2fcofee-morning-thumb.jpg" />
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      <title>Undergraduate research scholarships in the School of English, Drama and American &amp; Canadian Studies</title>
      <link>http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/news/2011/undergraduate-research-scholarships.aspx</link>
      <description>Students gain work experience assisting lecturers on research projects.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:51:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <media:content url="http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/news/2011/undergraduate-research-scholarships.aspx" />
      <guid>http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/news/2011/undergraduate-research-scholarships.aspx</guid>
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      <title>ESL students' metaphor-comprehension</title>
      <link>http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2011/metaphor-comprehension.aspx</link>
      <description>Jeannette Littlemore and Almut Koester publish research article.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:10:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <media:content url="http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2011/metaphor-comprehension.aspx" />
      <guid>http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2011/metaphor-comprehension.aspx</guid>
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      <title>Lucy Cooker to speak on Advising in Chiba, Japan</title>
      <link>http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2011/chiba-japan.aspx</link>
      <description>CELS Teaching Fellow to deliver Opening Remarks.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:05:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <media:content url="http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2011/chiba-japan.aspx" />
      <guid>http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2011/chiba-japan.aspx</guid>
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      <title>The Uses of Poetry</title>
      <link>http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2011/kate-rumbold.aspx</link>
      <description>One day forum hosted by Dr Kate Rumbold.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:32:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <media:content url="http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2011/kate-rumbold.aspx" />
      <guid>http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/news/2011/kate-rumbold.aspx</guid>
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