Lacking formal training in medicine or nursing, Walt Whitman nonetheless realized ‘the simple matter of personal presence, and emanating ordinary cheer and magnetism’ could go a long way.
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Writing about huge monsters is one way of confronting the things that make us feel small and vulnerable.
National identities are also the source of fierce loyalties and resistances. They elevate individual stories to the weight and scale of a national story.
Judith Beveridge’s poetic eye has
always been unblinking. She continues to stare even when the sight is shocking,
and she tells us exactly what she sees.
In our post-COVID age of climate change catastrophe, disabled people are ideally equipped to imagine how to overcome barriers to an inclusive world. Andy Jackson led a collaboration of disabled writers.
Gaz the farmer clears his throat, and we begin again to talk about Gaz the gangster.
How would an official poet laureate “speak” to the spoken word, slam or hip-hop communities, or to bush poets, or to songwriters?
The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien contains nearly 250 individual works spanning more than five decades, 70 of them previously unpublished.
There is no escaping the raw and catastrophic despair the loss of a child presses upon a parent. Two books about a young life lost tackle this grief.
From Lord Byron to Benson Boone, from Tennyson to TikTok, poetry endures because it speaks from – and to – the human heart, mind and imagination. AI might replicate it, but it can never replace it.
Written during the pandemic, the book is a dizzying exploration of time and the very human need for meaningful connection.
Students can play to their strengths in this anthropology course designed to teach them how to present research findings in ways other than a peer-reviewed paper.
Ern Malley was born out of a competitive and often vicious striving to see which vision of Australian national literature would emerge victorious.
Reading First Nations poetry, we come to feel Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’s lived experiences. Might we see this poetry as a work of makarrata?
Reading poetry can be a daunting affair. In Australian Poetry Month, an expert shows us how one poem works – and what it reveals.
Discovering beauty and urgency in nature: Simon Armitage’s Blossomise merges poetic grace with environmental activism.
This particular revival of the games – which started about 300 years ago – was all about wordplay and battles of wit.
Shakespeare’s work has been adapted into video games many times, most notably in Elsinore (2019), and has also been the subject of multiple game-making contests.
Many of the book’s themes, including structural racism, inequalities and poverty are as topical now as 30 years ago.
Broadcasters often reach for verse to inspire fans and heighten the drama of sporting events.
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