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“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 PickingsSince 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
Read More Aimé Césaire – The Modernist Poet Who Took on Colonialism“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 PickingsMilton 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
Read More Prophetic strain: the roots of Milton’s radical zeal – Prospect MagazineSAMUEL 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
Read More Dr John Cooper Clarke comes to Weston-super-Mare next week | Burnham and Highbridge Weekly NewsA 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
Read More Advertiser.ie – Poetry book for Palestine to be launched next week in GalwaySource: Our 2019 poetry competition | The Psychologist
Read More Our 2019 poetry competition | The PsychologistAn amazing show Source: Patti Smith talks about ‘Year of the Monkey’, at recent talk
Read More Patti Smith talks about ‘Year of the Monkey’, at recent talkIN 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
Read More The best of enemies – Ian Hamilton Finlay and Hugh MacDiarmid | The National
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