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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.
Ginsberg was one of the most high-profile representatives of the American counterculture and anti-war movement.
In order to avoid being labeled a communist sympathizer, King needed to publicly distance himself from the controversial poet. Privately, King found ways to channel Hughes' prose.
Although loneliness may seem timeless and universal, the word seems to have originated in the 16th century,
On his bush block in the WA wheatbelt, poet John Kinsella attempts habitat restoration and reflects on the responsibilities of the writer as a witness to species loss.
Sappho sang of desire, passion and love – mostly directed towards women. As new fragments of her work are found, a fuller picture of her is emerging, but she remains the most mysterious of ancient poets.
The detention centre for asylum seekers generated some economic benefits for Manus Islanders. But how would their forefathers have reasoned with the incarceration of men in exchange for development and money?
Rebecca Watts, Rupi Kaur, Kate Tempest – the world of poetry is up in arms again. Here's why.
There's a fine tradition of Australian poetry harnessing the corrective power of insult. In doing so, it prompts us to face hard questions about our history and identity.
Sometimes a work of art is characterized by a string of failures, but nonetheless ends up being a gorgeous freak accident of nature.
Keorapetse Kgositsile was made South Africa’s national poet laureate in 2006, the only person to have been given the honour.
Much like the fictitious Victor Frankenstein in Mary Shelley's novel, more and more scientists are running away from their real-life creations.
The first poem in space was a plea for world peace.
Civilians have become so far removed from the military and war, it can be hard to understand veterans. Their poetry can help us connect.
Most people's shortbread-tin ideas about the Highlands and Islands are missing a key traditional ingredient.
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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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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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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
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Senior Lecturer in Medical Ethics and Law, St George's, University of London
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Executive Director, Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences; Honorary Senior Fellow, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne
