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A Presidential Campaign Guide to Economics

” … A Campaign Guide to Economics could have been written yesterday ! In fact, reading through the Collection, I was struck by the fact that nothing much ever changes in politics … ”

Sir Derek Morris … October 2008.
Provost of Oriel College, Oxford.
Economist, ex-Head, UK Monopolies Commission

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‘In-Verse Relations’

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In-Verse Relations

Verse sounds and rhythms are so deeply imprinted on human language (Derek Walcott’s ‘sounds coupling to form a memory’) that ‘poetry’ has become much too important to be left to ‘poets’ alone – good or bad. It is more like an innate, potential ‘lingua franca’ of feeling and emotion which all humans have but in widely differing degrees of activation.

Contrary to much conventional wisdom, poetry’s subject matter has long been unconstrained by traditional bucolics of love and nature. Even among the 18th century ‘Romantic Poets’, Shelley and Coleridge were active dabblers in the emerging sciences; and both, with Byron and Wordsworth, were involved or exercised by the revolutionary politics of their day – in France, Italy and America.…

Poetry’s opening of the sensitivities is always bad news for the philistine and the oppressor. Pablo Neruda and Lorca bear witness!

So ‘In-Verse Relations’ will be exploring stories of how shared interests in ‘poetry’ can leap frontiers and open doors on wider worlds.

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