Tag: poetry
Back to basics: five old-school pleasures that are enjoying a revival
From reading poetry to cracking out the vinyl, our pick of five classic pastimes that appear to be making a comeback...
Lifestyle
‘Through poetry, I show there is more to my city than murder and trafficking’
‘People think my neighbourhood is a place only of homicide and trafficking. I use poetry to show them otherwise,’ says poet Evanilson Alves,...
Arts Opinion Society World
Project aims to preserve dying languages through poetry
The National Poetry Library is collecting poems written in endangered languages to help preserve them for future generations...
Arts Culture Lifestyle
Poetry in prisons: how words can boost inmate wellbeing
Can poems help in the struggle against depression? Rachel Kelly, who uses her own experience to help prison inmates, says that words really ...
Body & Mind Positive People Wellbeing
‘Poetry really was a lifeline’
A successful journalist with a thriving family, Rachel Kelly’s life was torn apart by depression. She tried everything to cope, from medicat...
Positive People Wellbeing
Olympics inspire art across UK coastline
Inspired by the ‘Olympic truce,’ which calls for countries to come together in peace, an art installation will see encampments of glowing te...
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