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Poems sing to us that life really matters, now.
In urban Namibia, performance poetry provides a safe space for women to share their experiences and challenge traditional ideas.
Chichester Cathedral’s stone effigy famously influenced Philip Larkin’s An Arundel Tomb. But a new discovery suggests it may have inspired the tale John Keats wrote as La Belle Dame Sans Merci too.
Edgar Allen Poe, Sigmund Freud and cognitive scientists have all wrestled with the human tendency to behave in ways that are irrational and self-defeating.
Malouf’s late return to poetry seems to bring him back in a new way to steadying poems that do justice to the open gaze, the sly wit, the swift imagination and the poise he has in spades.
Take the time to engage with poetry on your own terms.
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Associate Professor of Writing, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Assistant Teaching Professor of English, West Virginia University
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Professor of English, Texas A&M University
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Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, Université de Lille
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Instructor of Gender & Race Studies, University of Alabama
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Professor of English Literature, Aberystwyth University
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Emeritus Professor in the Australian Centre, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor in Creative Writing and Literary Studies, Deakin University
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Lecturer, Theatre and Media Arts, Federal University, Oye Ekiti
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Professor of Psychology, Indiana University
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Chancellor and Professor of English, Indiana University Kokomo, Indiana University Kokomo
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Reader in Literary Linguistics, Aston University
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Lecturer in Comparative Literature, Queen Mary University of London
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James J. Stansell Assistant Professor of Classics and Humanities, San Diego State University
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Lecturer: photojournalism and digital media, Namibia University of Science and Technology
