‘Let the Parts of the Flower Speak’: a poem by Mona Arshi
‘Poetry And – Human Rights’, a free discussion and meet-the-author book signing with prize-winning poet and lawyer Mona Arshi and Shadow Attorney General and member of the …
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‘Polynya’: a poem by Helen Mort
‘Poetry And – Women in the Arctic’, a free event – in partnership with Hercules Editions – curated by Ruth Padel, with poet Helen Mort, travel author …
Into the Road Map’s Blank Regions: On Paul Farley
Photo credit: Urszula Soltys ‘Poetry And – The Red Egg’, a free talk and poetry reading with two award-winning writers, poet Paul Farley and …
‘The Mystery’: a poem by Paul Farley
Photo credit: Urszula Soltys ‘Poetry And – The Red Egg’, a free talk and poetry reading with two award-winning writers, poet Paul Farley and …
The Most Perfect Thing: the Inside (and Outside) of a Bird’s Egg
‘Poetry And – The Red Egg’, a free talk and poetry reading with two award-winning writers, scientist Tim Birkhead and poet Paul Farley, takes place …
Tidings by Ruth Padel
The Voice of Silence I am the oldest angel, the dark side of the brain. Everything untold, suppressed, unseemly or wild is under my protection. …
Thaddeus O’Sullivan – ‘The Poetry of Making a Film’
Thaddeus O’Sullivan, edited by Ruth Padel Ruth: This essay sprang from a film-maker’s notes about directing. It has been written up by a poet eager …
‘I’m not sitting next to you’: On Poetry by Glyn Maxwell
Ellen Cranitch I once had to interview Glyn Maxwell. I’d just read this in his book On Poetry: ‘I think a poem you read has …
‘I dared speak my mind’: War Poetry, or the struggle to connect
James Nixon There is something very modern about Alun Lewis’s poem ‘All day it has rained …’ It is a poem that bares the isolation …
Iain McGilchrist – The Master and his Emissary
Iain McGilchrist’s book The Master and his Emissary argues that the division of the brain into two hemispheres is essential to human existence, making possible incompatible …