Poetry

• Together, they have released "Listen to the Silence: Messages & Miracles from Spencer Who Never Spoke Words," to help readers access a bond by unlocking the language of spirit.
• "Shortly after Spencer transcended, I noticed messages from him, which I began calling 'Spencpiratations,'" Gina said.
• "Listen to the Silence," shares how communication is possible without words and beyond a plane of physical existence.
• "Through my own experiences, I have discovered the bridge to connecting with loved ones who have crossed over.

• The Wild Atlantic Way can be explored on foot, bike or by car and on any timescale.
• From the heart-thumping beats of a traditional music session to plates of super-fresh seafood, the Wild Atlantic Way is all about having a good time.
• And when it comes to pubs, the Wild Atlantic Way delivers with the traditional grocery-style pubs of Dingle, the buzzing music pubs of Westport, as well as countless ocean-side beauties along the way.
• Always arrive in Galway city with an appetite, because it's a top food destination along the Wild Atlantic Way.

• Poetry by Wordsworth, Yeats and the only woman poet on our school curriculum, Emily Dickinson, became my sustenance.
• In my teens, I was deeply affected by the plight of Ann Lovett.
• My most recent collection, Conditional Perfect (2019), offers a broader emotional range, including anger about many forms of oppression.
• I recognise that poetry can indeed be “the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness”, as the author Alice Walker once stated.

Poetry for social change

• In a world teeming with injustice, it is more urgent than ever to read (and write) poetry that engages with social realities and inequities.
• Poetry, as Audre Lorde memorably stated, “is a vital necessity of our existence.
• In our social media-driven era, where it often feels as if nuance is in jeopardy, it is timely to think about how poetry can embrace the political while not succumbing to the lure of rhetoric.
• During the Arab Spring in 2010, Abu Al-Qasim Al-Shabi’s poem The Will to Life captured the emotions of Tunisian protesters in their struggle for democracy and change.

Writing political poetry

• What are the skills writers need to enable them to speak out, while avoiding the didactic and over-simplistic meaning?
• These are some of the questions my colleague, poet Eoin Devereux, and I are discussing today with special guest poet and renowned activist Sarah Clancy, in a unique online event for this year’s Poetry Day Ireland.
• To quote American poet Joy Harjo:
  Remember the plants, trees, animal life who all have their tribes, their families, their histories, too.

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• Birds and Fish: Life on the Hawkesbury – Robert Adamson (Upswell) In 2004, Adamson published Inside Out: An Autobiography.
• Adamson grew up in Neutral Bay on Sydney’s lower north shore, which afforded him ample opportunity to pursue his interest.
• It is a terrifying, beautiful scene, recounted not by the fallen boy, of course, but the poet he became.

• What I think I was aiming for when I stared into each bird’s eyes was some flicker of recognition, some sign of connection between us.
• What I think I was aiming for when I stared into each bird’s eyes was some flicker of recognition, some sign of connection between us.
• Theories of recognition have a long history, which in the Western tradition date back at least as far as Hegel.
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Blunt and honest

• This was the year of Mr Roberts, the teacher who introduced me to poetry and what they called nature studies.
• This was the year of Mr Roberts, the teacher who introduced me to poetry and what they called nature studies.

• It helped, too, that Mr Roberts “knew a bit about birds” and that he was encouraging about projects and assignments.
• The young Adamson lights up, a recognition undimmed, even when a new teacher tells him “to forget [his] ambition”.
• Nature was blunt and honest.
• There was no third party, no good manners, no god involved – no reasoning or theology, let alone spelling and maths.
• Nature was blunt and honest.
• It is to do with the field of being; you can project yourself back to the original lores, rites and rituals.
• It is to do with the field of being; you can project yourself back to the original lores, rites and rituals.

Craig Billingham has previously received funding from The Australia Council for the Arts (now Create Australia).