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The funniest thing
‘Scotland gets its brains from the herring’, said Grandpa. Ivor Cutler
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VIRUS 2020
14 October VIRUS 2020
Great poets can speak to us because they use the modes of thought we all possess. George Lakoff & Mark…
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Celebrating World Poetry Day
A writer has to use the imagination and can invent realities. Coleridge had never been to sea, had only ever…
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The Origins of Poetry
Wordsworth began his finest poem, Tintern Abbey, in the ruin's vicinity, and then refined it over two or more days…
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Poetry and democracy ~ Mugabe and Trump
Alexander Nehamas is frustrated by ‘the failure’ of our imagination: ‘We don't realize that most everything is contingent, that things…
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