Poetics
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Kracow, ‘To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric’
One has to write out of that break . . . Edmond Jabès
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The funniest thing
‘Scotland gets its brains from the herring’, said Grandpa. Ivor Cutler
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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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Tom Raworth RIP
'I hear my poetry as a sort of music, though I don't think of it as music. I think of…
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Interviewed by Zalehah Turner
Just as important as stories are our underlying images, metaphors and practices . . .
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Beautiful writing John !
We have surrendered our handwriting for something more mechanical, less distinctively human . . .
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