Author: Rogan Wolf
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Was Lazarus such a lucky man ?
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Someone I knew well died this Spring. Her death (from breast cancer) came twenty years after she was first diagnosed. But almost until the end, she refused to accept that death was pending. In her bed at home, she acknowledged the truth only a few hours before she stopped breathing, thereby making honest communication with…
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The ground underfoot has a thin crust these days but we’re still talking
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On Saturday May 7th, I spoke at a conference at Warwick University. It was called “2nd International Symposium on Poetry and Medicine”. I gave a short power-point presentation and read a paper. Here is the power-point and here is the paper. This version of the latter is slightly longer than the one I actually read. I…
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The Travails of Gordon Brown
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Here is a poem about the last Emperor of Byzantium. I sent it recently to a married couple I know, who both liked it. She said it’s about me. He said it’s about Gordon Brown. The idea behind the poem is that we are all now inheritors of fallen cities, walls of security which have…
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“No language is chauvinistic of itself; it is our misuse of language that makes it so.”
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Now that the new “One World…” poem-poster collection is up at last and as I begin to collect myself again and think about how to make sure that people know it is there, I want to record a good email conversation I had recently with Lakshmi Holmström, translator of the two Tamil poems selected for…
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The “Poems for…” project – a new collection has been uploaded , crossing new frontiers
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A new collection of mainly bilingual poems has been uploaded on the Poems for… website. It consists of sixty poems, most of them bilingual. Eventually this sixty will join and become one with the collection of forty five poems launched a few years ago, called “Poems for… One World.” The new collection has taken three…