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This is the last leg of our ‘Paradise of Exiles’ poetry course run through the British Institute of Florence – on the matter of the huge influence of Italian poetry on our great English poets: Wyatt; Christina Rossetti; Robert Barrett-Browning; Shelley . Dante was scheduled for a single session : we have run to three-

Any chance I get to talk about poetry I grab. So when mental heath campaigner Rachel Kelly and I were asked to contribute to the Break Out Culture by Country Town and House podcast with Ed Vaizey and Charlotte Metcalf, I didn’t hesitate to say yes! You can listen to our musings here.

The enduring and radical value of poetry But words are things, and a small drop of ink,Falling like dew upon a thought can make thousands,If not millions think. Lord Byron (Don Juan) Can poetry have any real meaning in the modern world? Can the utterance of a poet have any more relevance than the extraordinary

Here’s a great article by Stephanie Denning on why business leaders might benefit from reading poetry instead of (or at least as well as) books like The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A F*ck.

Leaders will need to be resilient, open-minded, and creative. Poetry can show them the way BY CLARE MORGAN AND MASSIMO PORTINCASO Here’s a fascinating article well worth a read. It explains how leaders are being called on to engage in a new and extremely challenging kind of dual thinking – to manage the present creatively