Keywords: Zbigniew Herbert
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Warwick McFadyen
- 20 February 2024
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‘The loss of memory by a nation is also a loss of its conscience.’ As the loss of conscience grows with each succeeding generation, one day righting the boat on the sea of forgetfulness will become impossible. In the end, what people don’t know, they won’t miss.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Warwick McFadyen
- 04 October 2023
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Some people pray in church, some pray alone, some share their prayer through song, and others use poems as prayer. Each carries its own line of faith that they believe unites them with something outside themselves. This union is reached through words written and words said.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 02 August 2012
Eric Packer is 'the one per cent', who stoically discusses economics with his chief advisor even as an anti-capitalist protest broils outside his limousine; Occupy reimagined as animal anarchy, with protestors yielding spray-paint and dead rats; 'the 99 per cent' of the besieged city raging to reassert their worth.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Kevin Hart on the poetry and essays of Czeslaw Milosz.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Chris Wallace-Crabbe
- 18 June 2006
Chris Wallace-Crabbe on After Shakespeare: An Anthology and The Oxford Book of Aphorisms, both edited by John Gross.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
A new Australian film examines the powerful role of poetry in times of oppression.
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