Australia’s ‘wild reciters’ sought to change the world verse by verse. Who are today’s provocateurs?
In his latest book, Peter Kirkpatrick retrieves from Australian cultural history the compelling figure of the “ wild reciter ...
Loveland Reporter-Herald2d
Trivially Speaking: A dogged pursuit leads to irregular poetry
Doggerel! There I said it. Sometimes words just wander through my mind on their way to somewhere else. That one drifted through just the other morning as I was accompanying Lucy, the Ambassador of ...
The Berkshire Eagle2d
BOOK REVIEW: Berkshire poet David Giannini's 'Stones Are the First to Rise' offers poetic meditations on the multiverse and reality
Berkshire poet David Giannini’s new collection 'Stones Are the First to Rise' explores nature, politics and the shifting ...
World Poetry Day: In a post #MeToo world, feminist poetry is flourishing
Poetry and feminism have always been intertwined but in recent years, many new feminist and queer voices have emerged and ...
The paradox of democracy’s success: behavioural science helps explain why we miss autocratic red flags
Paradoxically, the very success of democratic systems may thus also sow the seeds of their potential undoing. This is a ...
World Poetry Day: On Instagram and TikTok, poetry finds a new lease of life
From social media to AI, new technologies have changed the way that we produce and consume poetry. For World Poetry Day, we ...