For the Birds
Francis Levy
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Posted 06.10.2013
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Arts
Everyone remembers the haunting image of the albatross from Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." In the poem, the gigantic bird saves the...
Everyone remembers the haunting image of the albatross from Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." In the poem, the gigantic bird saves the...
I first had the idea for the Modern Mariner as I sat in an office block eating lunch at my computer, rifling through ecological blogs. I came across a certain picture, a penny dropped, and I ran round the corner to the park with a pen and paper to write the first few verses.
Michael Bloor, a professor at Cardiff University's Seafarers International Research Centre, has spent twelve years uncovering the harsh and unjust working conditions faced by an often overlooked group: the roughly one million mariners around the world.
Does poetry have something to teach the business world? Simon Bainbridge, a literature professor at Lancaster University, believes it does.
In the late 1890s, an unknown dealer or collector assembled letters that were titled Sir Walter Scott: Letters of his Friends and Contemporaries. One of my favorite items in this is a poem in the hand of a very aged Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Good news that the beautiful Kate Moss is joining the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge at No 3, The Grove, Highgate, London. Coleridge first came to live ...
We've all heard the cliche "Write what you know." Well, the following writers were addicted to drugs and, boy, did they write about it. Writing und...
According to freelance journalist Rose George, a child dies from diarrhea -- usually brought on by fecal-contaminated food or water -- every 15 seconds. But human waste can be used to good purpose.
Call me naïve. Okay. An idealist. I'd rather be an idealist than an ideologue. But I'm constitutionally and temperamentally averse to succumbing to inaction and despair.
Fear may be the oldest and strongest emotion in our species. The politics of hope plays to a less primitive emotion.
You need only look at the way the media covers Winehouse to see that we glamorize her drug use. And this is nothing new.
