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The poems go beyond protest songs – there is skill and craft to them.
Storytelling can be an effective way to impart lessons in science.
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Poetry and prose are prominent features in this course about how climate change is affecting the world.
Math problems take on new meaning in this class that combines rhymes and verse with math instruction.
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A math professor explains how he prepares future teachers to use poetry in their math instruction.
Ali Cobby Eckermann.
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Ali Cobby Eckermann’s first book since winning the Windham Campbell Prize may well prove her most enduring.
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In speaking to the moment, poets are bringing the apocalypse to Australian literature.
Anglo-Saxon village re-enactment event in Wirksworth, Derbyshire, 2008.
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Hundreds of years ago, people spoke Old English – but it is very different to English today.
Palestinian novelist and intellectual Ghassan Kanafani was assassinated by Mossad in 1972.
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Generations of Palestinian writers and poets have expressed their feelings of grief and loss.
A new poetry collection takes falling as its unifying theme, but the contents suggest something more horizontal and glitchy.
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Sarah Holland-Batt becomes the second poet in a row to win The Stella Prize. The Jaguar is an extension of her activism against human rights abuses in aged care in Australia.
John Tranter (1943-2023). Photo: Susan Gordon-Brown.
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John Tranter’s poetry was defined by his relentless desire to experiment.
An etching of a Royal Institution lecture by James Gillray (1802). Davy is on the right, holding the bellows.
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Davy’s famous lectures on the animating power of electricity may have inspired a young Mary Shelley as she came up with the idea for Frankenstein.
Peatlands at Forsinard in Sutherland, northern Scotland.
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Peatlands have always had a place in art, writing and poetry. In times of global warming these cultural reflections can help open up debate about the biodiversity and climate crisis.
Research has shown that the UK read more during the pandemic.
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Many established poets published lockdown poems offering their perspective on the power of poetry to make sense of the pandemic.
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Before Swifties or the Beyhive, there were Byromaniacs – fans of the poet Lord Byron.
Odoacer (left) and Theoderic (right) in a woodcut from the Hartmann Schedel (1493).
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Here, possibly four centuries before women are given a significant voice in heroic poetry in Germany and Scandinavia, a queen speaks out in an English version of a Gothic story.
Love letters have a rich history as Valentine’s Day gifts.
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A photo beamed via a satellite from a smartphone is never the same as the description of a place the lover must try hard to imagine.
Figuring out what to do with the ‘Song of Songs’ has preoccupied people reading the Bible for centuries.
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The famous biblical book alludes to God only once. Historically, though, most interpreters have argued the poem’s about love between the divine and his people.
Notes left by fans at Sylvia Plath’s grave.
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February 11 marks 60 years since Sylvia Plath’s death. Plath remains one of the great poets of depression, but also wrote on motherhood.
Sylvia Plath photographed a month before her death.
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Sylvia Plath left behind a complicated legacy. Contemporary writers influenced by her work must juggle inspiration with some problematic imagery – as a poetry expert explains.
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The concept of a national poet laureate has a long history. The establishment of an official Australian position represents an unmissable opportunity.