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Something old, something new | Elizabeth Trew
2 days ago
2 days ago
For as long as poems and songs have been recorded, poets have used a multitude of strategies to help us see the world more clearly and experience it more fully.
One of these strategies is to describe something from the distant past and to contrast it with the way we live now. Such a poem migh...
Point of view | Simon van Schalkwyk
17 days ago
17 days ago
It would be easy to assume that every poem is written from a single point of view, aiming to deliver a single message as simply and directly as possible.
But sometimes poets find it more rewarding to shift their perspective, slowly or suddenly, halfway into a poem, showing up our expectations...
Wonder-eyed | Sarah Frost
Tue, 11 August 2026
Tue, 11 August 2026
One of the things we love most about children is their ability to experience profound astonishment at everything that surrounds them. But how can we nourish and sustain this ability as we grow older?
No one has pondered this question more deeply than Sarah Frost, who won the English category ...
