My father (1915–1996) left school at 14, barely literate or numerate and was more or less a manual laborer his whole life; he was never interested in education and never became educated. But I always ...
In Part 1 of this extended article, I looked at what poetry can do better than any other art form: convey complex ideas and profound emotional states and express what is otherwise inexpressible. I ...
Seamus Heaney, the great Irish poet, whose marvellous collection of essays The Redress of Poetry I like to re-read, writes that W H Auden’s elegy for Yeats was “a rallying cry that celebrates poetry ...
Poet and publisher Spencer Madsen mines the :-)s and :-(s of modern life. Spencer Madsen is a writer who will, with equal enthusiasm, tweet a selfie of his butt and write the sincerest, saddest line ...
Poet and publisher Spencer Madsen mines the :-)s and :-(s of modern life. Spencer Madsen is a writer who will, with equal enthusiasm, tweet a selfie of his butt and write the sincerest, saddest line ...
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