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 […]
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I met Michael that evening in 1997 in ‘The Red Lion’ in Piccadilly because he was having a drink with Don Paterson who had been my teacher at the Arvon Foundation I was very pleased to see Don. At the time Donaghy and Paterson were the two most well known young poets of their day.
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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.
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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
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If not for lockdown, our acclaimed film ‘Lift Me Up I Am Dying would never have happened, it would have been a live tribute to John Keats, performed, on the bicentenary of his death in front of an invited audience, in the historic rooms at John Murray, at no 50 Albemarle Street. When everything got
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Stephanie Denning makes a masterful case for poetry in business… In business school, I had the good fortune of interviewing a Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts executive for a paper I was writing. One anecdote remains lodged in my mind. I concluded the interview by asking him to what he owed his success. His most
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This evocative title captures the creative aims of my tried and tested creative writing workshops. My students understand that if they harness the integrity of a strong writing voice they can write and communicate with a renewed sense of self. Successful entrepreneurs in the world of business and in the arts, need to find a