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TEDx Warwick: The taboo of mental health

The taboo behind mental health needs to be lifted. This was the message from Cecilia Knapp, a performance poet and writer, who has used ‘creative self-expression’ to help heal some of the wounds from her childhood. Speaking openly about the suicide of her older brother, she made it very clear...
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By , Mar. 29, 2016

Poetry as currency

A global experiment took place on World Poetry Day in which customers of Julius Menl coffee shops can pay for their drinks by writing a poem. The chain ran the same programme last year with much success – sadly, only one store in London and one in Edinburgh is taking part this year...
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By , Mar. 28, 2016

Jessica Jones: AKA WWJD?

This week’s episode takes place almost entirely in Jessica’s old house. It’s to the credit of the actors and writers that AKA WWJD? is so compelling; by scaling down the action, Krysten Ritter and David Tennant are given the space they need to act, away from the violent showpieces of...
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By , Mar. 28, 2016

The Power of Roald Dahl

Growing up as an unorthodox ’90s child, the author most influential to my upbringing was Roald Dahl. He began writing as a child and made it a profession in the 1940s. If we do the maths, that’s essentially 76 years of neverending success within the book industry. Even after his death, his books continue...
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By , Mar. 27, 2016

Why Do We Still Read Poetry?

  “His eyes went white, like a shark about to attack.”  “I feel the color in my cheeks rising again. I must be the color of The Communist Manifesto.” We live in a terrible era in which sentences such as the above describe the extent of our literary awareness. Verbose phrases that...
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By , Mar. 26, 2016