Author: Rogan Wolf
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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…
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Talking of Art – why write poetry ?
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Someone asked me recently for my thoughts on why I still seem to write poetry, despite everything. This was my reply : …I think a lot of your day can flood out your sense of self. Writing a poem is a way of restoring your own distinctness and boundaries. The world can silence you. The…
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And what is Art for, then ?
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For the first time on this blog, on this New Year’s Day, I want simply to report on something I did recently. I’m proud of it, but am also still absorbing what it meant. Half way through December, I ran a “Mental Health Arts” evening in a church assembly room, part of an inner-city church…
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Augustin stands…
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sculpture by Dorothy Love at www.dorothylove.co.uk proposition… continue reading
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What are the “Skills of Love” ? Is it worth trying to name them ?
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Last December, I ran an arts evening which needed professional actors to perform a short new play. At the audition stage, one of the candidates wrote to me as follows : “If only the theatre world was run entirely by social workers and mental health professionals ! I hope I can speak for all of…
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So when’s the Next Post due, then ?
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But how can there be a next when we haven’t even established a starting-point ? I suggest that to be afraid of the world ending is pointless now. There is a sense in which the world has ended already. Certainly, the solid orb our parents knew has disappeared, along with the truisms and structures they…