Author: Rogan Wolf
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Dignity and Light
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Two new poem collections are about to be uploaded on the website of the project I run, called “Poems for…“. One of them is on Learning Disability and is called “Poems for… Bridges to Learning Disability” The other is on mental ill-health and is called “Poems for…Self at Sea“. The poems in both collections bring……
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Poems for United Response (2)
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United Response is a UK registered charity which supports people who have disabilities. It aims to help them fulfill themselves in the community. It seeks to ensure they receive their basic human rights. It is one of many good organisations seeking to maintain and strengthen our society’s bindings, in times and under leaders seemingly intent…
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Despatches to my Gazan Son
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At the end of last year I translated into English a long poem by the distinguished Turkish poet Cahit Koytak. In Turkish, the poem is called “Gazze Risalesi.” It was written in 2008, but could just as easily have been composed last Summer, during the Israeli bombings which took place then, too. It seems that…
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Poems for United Response
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United Response is a registered charity which supports people who have disabilities. It aims to help them fulfill themselves and be less isolated in our community. It seeks to ensure they receive their basic human rights. In mentioning this particular organisation here, I am not seeking to advertise it at the possible expense of others…
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David Attenborough, Barak Obama, a starling and a blackbird
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David Attenborough has given a long life to his love and defence of the natural world, whose destruction has continued despite him, at our hands. The other day he had a chat with an American president of stature and they agreed on quite a few things. At first a starling took part in their conversation.…
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But What is Number One ?
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“…And Number One, deep in its steel case lashing at forests, at continents, at cities, befouling ocean, air-wave, blood-stream, raising hordes of zealots to slaughter their fellows in the name of a phantasm, breeding the will to deceive, tending the urge to piracy and plunder, nurturing despair, aiding inertia, working deep in, working slowly to…
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The Shaming of Tiddalik
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The election lost, we wander round the ruins and embers, still shell-shocked. And with Labour’s Miliband having resigned so swiftly, the contest for his successor gives no cause whatsoever for comfort or for hope. Who are these people jostling now to replace him ? What brought them to this position ? Has anyone yet had…