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
I was lucky enough to count the late Michael Donaghy as a friend. His poems are mesmerising. His personality was magnetic. I was a star struck student.
It was a hundred years ago that T S Eliot first published the Wasteland.
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