Category: Poetry
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Word from Myanmar
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Last week, I added six new poems to the bilingual collection called “Poems for…one world.” All the new poems were Burmese, our fifty-first language. Remember that Burmese is a language whose speakers are themselves presently learning to be free again, to speak freely. You can access the six poems here . You can read the…
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A Statement of Principle in time for Christmas
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I suspect that many of us see “principle” as something we can just hive off and leave in airy-fairy land while we hurry out to do our Christmas shopping. So I’ll say straightaway that, on the contrary, true and meaningful principle may in the end be the only fact that counts, far more significant and…
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The Resignation of Denis MacShane
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Denis MacShane was Minister for Europe under Tony Blair. He brought a wider and more cultured vision and experience to that role than many politicians and activists ever get near, at least in this country. For instance, he translated into English a Brecht poem for “Poems on the Underground”. He also responded positively to a…
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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 “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…