Parliamentary staff write poems about their privilege after Black Lives Matter protests

Parliamentary staff told to write poems about privilege on a ‘digital wall’ made after Black Lives Matter protests – with one woke worker insisting they can no longer watch police comedy Brooklyn Nine-Nine over its ‘cosy lies’ Parliamentary staff have been urged to admit their ‘privilege’ on a digital wall Staff can write poetry and … Read more

No boring theory or intellectual snobbery. Just poems awash with well-loved lines

A Little History Of Poetry John Carey Yale University £14.99 Rating: Roughly 250 years ago, James Boswell asked Dr Johnson: ‘What is poetry?’ ‘Why sir, it is much easier to say what it is not,’ replied Johnson. ‘We all know what light is; but it is not easy to tell what it is.’ John Carey … Read more