On the radio recently, on Brendan O’Connor’s show, the powerhouse that is Professor Ian Robertson of Trinity, was talking about getting older; he says there are three things necessary for ageing successfully purpose, pleasure and novelty.
On the radio recently, on Brendan O’Connor’s show, the powerhouse that is Professor Ian Robertson of Trinity, was talking about getting older; he says there are three things necessary for ageing successfully purpose, pleasure and novelty.
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In most circles poetry doesn’t matter. It doesn’t put bread on the table, nor raise people to revolt nor even make news unless a grizzled footballer is outed for secretly writing poems. Even in churches poems and hymns are altered to improve their orthodoxy in matters of faith, gender, race or modernity, but rarely their poetic quality. By Andrew Hamilton