We live in a post-modernist world and its values are everywhere around us; and everywhere these values are almost largely unexamined, and because we have little to contrast our present state with we fail to see how lamentable and poor we are. There is a deep materialism running through society which deprives people of theContinue reading “Poetry and the Muses Part 1”
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Outside In or Inside Out Poetry?
I read a poem recently that was written by a well known – famous even – English poet. The poem had been specially commissioned for a leading charitable organisation that was dealing with poverty and homelessness. To be fair, the poem was interesting – on its own terms. What he had done was artfully constructContinue reading “Outside In or Inside Out Poetry?”
The Mapping Motivation Series 