Some of the most beautiful things in this show are the shikisi, or poem cards, in which the visual form of Koetsu's writing chimes wonderfully with the loops and eddies of Sotatsu's water, the spikes of his plant stems and the slow blur of his distant mountains.

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Meanwhile, teachers at Cardiff's Fitzalan High School have told BBC Wales they will be withdrawing from all competitions at this year's Urdd National Eisteddfod in Cardiff as a result of another poem - called Bwyd Od (Odd food).

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Keldysh recited a poem in Russian, Mstislav made a joke about Gogol, then we sealed up this weird stew with cheesecloth mesh, as we do the rest of the topsoil, to keep it from absconding in the zero-G.

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