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 …
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. …
Michael Donaghy, Poetry SuperHero and How I Got his Number. Read More »
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 …
Why CEOs need to read poetry – yes poetry – to lead in the post-Covid world Read More »
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 …