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Asma, who boasts in one e-mail to a friend that she is the "REAL dictator" in her relationship, reciprocates the affection, once writing her husband a short poem.
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Candidates will also have to produce a range of literary work, such as a short story or play or poem.
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This short film is a tone poem, a disarticulation of space, a testament to disaffected masculinity and an exemplary piece of cinematography.
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For most school children, being able to recite a poem from memory is a short cut to wandering lonely as a cloud during lunch times and having your gym kit chucked on top of the bus shelter.
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These historic events form the background to this short, arresting historical novel, written almost as a prose poem, which recounts the Dome's construction from the viewpoint of one of the Caliph's advisers, who is of Jewish origin but has adopted the new Muslim creed.
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During the short service the poem Lest We Forget, which was written by a sailor on watch during the initial search for the submarine, was read by Mr Allen's son Martin.
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