“Try to accept this fat red hurt is your starting point.” Source: A Scientist’s Advice on Healing: A Soulful Animated Poem About Getting to the Other Side of Heartbreak [ … ]
Category: poetry
Aimé Césaire – The Modernist Poet Who Took on Colonialism
Since Aimé Césaire’s death in 2008 at the age of 94, as democracies devolve into autocracies, his Discourse on Colonialism remains prescient about the barbarity that informs civilization. Source: [ … ]
Polish Poet and Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska on Great Love – Brain Pickings
“Great love is never justified. It’s like the little tree that springs up in some inexplicable fashion on the side of a cliff: where are its roots, what does it [ … ]
Prophetic strain: the roots of Milton’s radical zeal – Prospect Magazine
Milton was a political as well as poetic revolutionary. How did the author of Paradise Lost find himself? Source: Prophetic strain: the roots of Milton’s radical zeal – Prospect Magazine
Dr John Cooper Clarke comes to Weston-super-Mare next week | Burnham and Highbridge Weekly News
SAMUEL Taylor Coleridge once said that prose is “words in their best order”, but poetry is “the best words in the best order”. Source: Dr John Cooper Clarke comes to [ … ]
Advertiser.ie – Poetry book for Palestine to be launched next week in Galway
A book of poetry, inspired by the killing of 14-year-old Abdul-Rauf Ismael Salha by Israeli soldiers in January this year, will be launched in Galway next week. Source: Advertiser.ie – [ … ]
Our 2019 poetry competition | The Psychologist
Source: Our 2019 poetry competition | The Psychologist
Patti Smith talks about ‘Year of the Monkey’, at recent talk
An amazing show Source: Patti Smith talks about ‘Year of the Monkey’, at recent talk
The best of enemies – Ian Hamilton Finlay and Hugh MacDiarmid | The National
IN March this year I paid a visit to Professor Alan Riach in his office at the Scottish Literature Department of the University of Glasgow. A few… Source: The best [ … ]
Book review: ‘Voices in the Air: Poems for Listeners,’ unforgettable free-verse poems for teens | Parenting | poststar.com
Parents need to know that National Book Award Finalist Naomi Shihab “Nye’s Voices in the Air: Poems for Listeners” is a collection of 95 free verse poems. They’re populated with [ … ]
A Brand New Beginning: “Austerity Measures: The New Greek Poetry” – Los Angeles Review of Books
Source: A Brand New Beginning: “Austerity Measures: The New Greek Poetry” – Los Angeles Review of Books
Douglas Crase, Literary Subversive
Source: Douglas Crase, Literary Subversive