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The poet Percy Bysshe Shelley believed that we can exercise our moral imagination 'in the same manner as exercise strengthens a limb'. Here, then, are some tips for fostering empathy through art.
Future Sounds: Listening to Lynette Roberts, the forgotten Welsh poet.
Persecuted by Stalin, writers Lydia Chukovskaya and Anna Akhmatova endured threats, cold and starvation. And in an epic feat, Lydia memorised the poems of her friend that were too dangerous to commit to paper.
Writerly acts of confession are garish, they are vulgar and dazzling, but they are the only form of disobedience at many a woman writer’s disposal.
After Shakespeare and Laozi, Kahlil Gibran is the highest selling poet ever, largely thanks to The Prophet, a set of 26 prose poems.
Shakespeare’s first reputation was as a poet, and particularly as a sex poet. He would later incorporate his bawdy inclinations into his most famous plays.
In a time when women were expected to be silent, no topic was off limits for Pulter, who penned verses about politics, science and loss. Her manuscript was just published in a free digital archive.
During First World War, the rhetoric of chivalry counteracted the inhumanity of the conflict in sometimes surprising ways.
Dylan Thomas's early short stories were shocking, obscene, and a sign of things to come
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.
The writings of John WIlmot, Earl of Rochester, were certainly obscene. But his poetry also gave us a new way of looking at the human condition.
Like epic poets, AFL commentators improvise in short phrases, not sentences, because it creates vivid images of fast action.
From human suffering to political chicanery to environmental degradation, the tide of bad news, blared in headlines every day, seems overwhelming. One poet and classics scholar asks: What can be done?
Across her long career, Dobson was celebrated as a poet who could take the reader beyond the immediate image to another insight.
We talk excitedly about meeting someone with whom we 'click' or 'really hit it off.' So why do so many of us hesitate to call it love?
Reading the poem Eurydice to her students unleashed surprising emotions for Stephanie Trigg. But literature works in mysterious, unpredictable ways, highlighting the impossibility of trigger warnings.
The Romantics - including poets William Blake and William Wordsworth - lived in the 18th century, but their passionate ideas about imagination and nature are still influential today.
Nelson Mandela's release in 1990 was met by an outpouring of poetic celebration both within South Africa and globally.
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Emeritus Professor of Creative writing, University of Melbourne
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Lecturer in Creative Writing, RMIT University
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Reader, University of East London
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Senior Lecturer in the School of English, Media Studies and Art History, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Classics, University of Newcastle
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Lecturer of English, University of Liverpool
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Political Scientist, University of the Western Cape
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Senior Lecturer in English and Creative Writing, Cardiff Metropolitan University
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Associate Professor in Australian Literature, University of Sydney
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PhD Researcher, Swansea University
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Associate Professor of English, Virginia Tech
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Post-doctoral researcher, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Alice Gorman is a Friend of The Conversation.
Senior Lecturer in Archaeology and Space Studies, Flinders University
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Sydney City Poet, University of Technology Sydney
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Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religion Studies, University of North Texas
