Poems of Hope and Light
Neil Astley, founder of Bloodaxe Books, talks about the universal appeal of contemporary poetry and the series of inspiring anthologies he has edited
‘What’s going on in a poem – the experience it describes – is universal.’
Neurodiversity and Creativity
Catalysing change through artful agitation: a conversation with artist and researcher Dr Kai Syng Tan
‘There are many different ways of being human; people have different brains, different minds, different modes of communication and different modes of behaviour.’
COPY OF A Thing of Beauty…
Barbara Vellacott contemplates the indescribability of beauty in Dante’s Paradiso
“Beauty is a divine vibration which sings in poet, poem, reader and listener. But its essence is nevertheless indescribable.”
A Bride Married to Amazement
Kawther Luay | In memory of Mary Oliver, a modern mystic, and possibly our era’s most cherished American poet – known for her compassionate and attentive regard for the natural world – who died on 17 January 2019.