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Welcome to Smeddum's Hotpotch . A port of call for news from all over the world focussing on Scotland. Here I publish poems music and comedy. If you press on menu you can access my youtube channel. If you want to contribute any material. Please contact me at paulanderson9@yahoo.co.uk Remember to subscribe to my YouTube channel so I can post live

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Category: poetry

A Scientist’s Advice on Healing: A Soulful Animated Poem About Getting to the Other Side of Heartbreak – Brain Pickings

  “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 – Brain Pickings

Read More A Scientist’s Advice on Healing: A Soulful Animated Poem About Getting to the Other Side of Heartbreak – Brain Pickings

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: Aimé Césaire – The Modernist Poet Who Took on Colonialism

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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 feed on, what miracle produces… Source: Polish Poet and Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska on Great Love – Brain Pickings

Read More Polish Poet and Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska on Great Love – Brain Pickings

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

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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 Weston-super-Mare next week | Burnham and Highbridge Weekly News

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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 – Poetry book for Palestine to be launched next week in Galway

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Our 2019 poetry competition | The Psychologist

Source: Our 2019 poetry competition | The Psychologist

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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

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Mary Symon – Collected Poems

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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 of enemies – Ian Hamilton Finlay and Hugh MacDiarmid | The National

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