Recasting Life’s Exquisite Spell

We live inside a climate catastrophe; we find ourselves becalmed in a contagion that is killing our elders; we inhabit an epidemic of loneliness. And it could be poetry, that tender ancient code and mode, we need to buoy us. At least as much as we need a vaccine and a change of world leadership, we need a change of heart, and poetry is the heart’s idiom. I don’t mean we all need to become poets, but it would help if we read poetry more often, and it would help even more if we could live more poetically—practise in our lives what poetry preaches. Poetry is a way, not just a genre. It is a way, specifically, of seeing and being, and also of saying. Come hear me talk about all that this afternoon on zoom, through Talking Sticks: “The Exquisite Spell:. Sunday 18 October 2020, 4:30 to 6:30.

https://www.talkingsticks.com.au/event-calendar/the-exquisite-spell-with-dr-mark-tredinnick