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4 Poems for Times of Crisis

Shazea Quraishi, who teaches her popular course Lighting the World: Writing in Times of Crisis, recommends her top 4 poems that demonstrate writing in response to times of crisis. Image credit: @usgs Crisis comes from the Greek ‘krisis’, meaning decision. In English it was first used in a medical context to refer to the decisive, turning…

Posted in Blog 2 months ago by

Shazea Quraishi

CLIMATE POETRY: Simon Armitage, ‘The Summit’

A collaboration between the University of Leeds Poetry Centre and the Priestley Centre for Climate Futures.

Posted in Blog 1 year ago by

Poetry School