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Archive of posts filed under the Poetry category.

Lemn Sissay at the Royal Academy in London

Lemn Sissay’s performance video of his poem WHAT IF? was, for me, one of the highlights of the Royal Academy’s current exhibit entitled EARTH – Art of a Changing World.
The exhibit “sets out to consider the impact of climate change, and our transition to a new world, on the practice of a broad range of [...]

Long Live This Wounded Planet

Poetry as a literary art form is once again gaining popularity.  There is no shortage of poems addressing nature and Man’s interaction with it. I find this piece by Adrian Mitchell inspiring:
William Blake says: Everything that Lives is Holy
Long live the Child
Long live the Mother and Father
Long live the People
Long live this wounded Planet
Long live [...]