John Bennett
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Poems
Mangrove roots, Nambucca River
Mangrove roots, Nambucca River Seeds take root, their green shells dislocate in sections, leaves unfold, arch and expand precarious tidelines,…
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Uncategorized
Lotus flower, Suzhou
Lotus flower, Suzhou Nirvana is right here, before our eyes. This very place is the Lotus Land . .…
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Leaves
Palm world in the Anthropocene, near Smoky Cape
Palm world in the Anthropocene, near Smoky Cape Black shafts mine the earth’s nourishment renewed by the urgency of fire…
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Eco
Roos in the garden
Roos in the garden Eighteenth-century thinkers wrestled with human/non-human animal distinctions. Jeremy Bentham asked if animals suffer. We now…
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Photography
Art at the Venice Biennale, 2011
Art at the Venice Biennale, 2011 The French pavilion by Christian Boltanski, vast scaffolding running pictures of new born Poles…
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Phronesis and techne – technical philosophy
Phronesis and techne – technical philosophy Practical wisdom (phronesis) involves Aristotle notes in moving between the particular and the general.…
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Techne and poetry – technical philosophy
Techne and poetry – technical philosophy Plato never treated poetry as art and denied poets any standing, or worse, considered…
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Don’t Mention the War, March 2003
War is an artist, a writer a concatenation of stories – dramatic, pitiful, exciting, dedicated to death. So I listen…
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Poets Against the War (in Iraq)
Poets Against the War On March 5th, 2003 governments all around the world received a copy of the largest anthology…
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The end of the pastoral
The pastoral is still often taken as the central genre of nature poetry, I look towards an ecopoetics as a way…
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