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Brutus’s life was closely interlinked with the rise of apartheid and offered a way to look at resistance to this system.
A study of the late Keorapetse Kgositsile shows how the poet influenced black American culture. It also shows how his mother and his grandmother’s oral traditions in turn influenced him.
Human existence is now permeated by computer language. Digital artists combine human and computer codes to create digital poetry.
A year after retiring as the UK’s poet laureate, Duffy is finding new ways to express herself.
Poets and the wealthy were angered by those who saw their opportunity to rise above their station after the plague.
Poems sing to us that life really matters, now.
You don’t have to understand or even like every poem you read.
Breaking through the world of male Irish poetics, Boland was a fierce, feminist voice that was decidedly Irish.
Scotland’s ‘makar’ and quiet man of poetry continues to be loved, read, taught and celebrated 100 years after his birth.
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From humble beginnings, poet Bruce Dawe became a genial voice, capturing everyday humanity with wry focus. For many Australians, he provided a first taste of verse.
To foreigners, he was a fellow traveler who recognized the plight of the oppressed.
Written from prison, the new book of poems by the writer, academic and activist shows her fire but also her deep love for Uganda.
Award-winning playwright Stephen House turned to poetry to capture glimpses of life. He writes verse until his composition ‘feels right’.
In urban Namibia, performance poetry provides a safe space for women to share their experiences and challenge traditional ideas.
We created a reading-machine that finds poetry hidden in plain sight in popular books. In doing so, we are exploring Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning and reading in a digitised world.
A creative writing project in South Australian prisons shows those inside can be eloquent, expressive and reflective.
Katherine Bradley and Edith Cooper were aunt and niece as well as lovers who published under a male pseudonym.
Holocaust poetry has been written for the last 90 years by people all over the world, in many different languages and by many different groups.
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Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing, RMIT University
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Professor of English, North Carolina State University
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Professor of English Literature, Aberystwyth University
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Associate Professor in Australian Literature and Writing, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor, Department of Learning and Teaching Enhancement, Edinburgh Napier University
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Senior Lecturer In Creative Writing, University of Roehampton
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Political Scientist, University of the Western Cape
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Executive Dean (interim) Faculty of Arts and Design, University of Canberra
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Emeritus Professor of Literature and Environment, Curtin University
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Reader in Creative Writing, Cardiff Metropolitan University
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Lecturer, Creative Writing, UNSW Sydney
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Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor of English Literature, The University of Melbourne
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Honorary Professor, The University of Queensland
