Category: General
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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…
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Three propositions to get us off the ground
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Thank you for visiting. This is my first post. To celebrate, I shall set out three propositions which for me are seminal. The fact that all three refer to priests requires me to say that I myself am not religious. The fact is interesting, nevertheless. As a combination, the three act as a kind of…