York University Toronto Canada
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I am at York University near Toronto in Canada. I gave the Wendy Michener Lecture last night. Read more [...]
The Forced Generation is Born.
During the year ending last March Three thousand and fifty looked after children were adopted. Sixty were classified babies. Two percent. Point twenty of a percent decrease (approx) on the previous year. Read more [...]
The Economist
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Poetry and the Olympic games
Some rhyme and reason at the Olympic Park
Oct 17th 2011, 18:10 by E.H. | LONDON
SINCE the announcement in 2005 that London Read more [...]
Royal Festival Hall Photoshoot with James Ross
Royal Festival Hall Photoshoot with James Ross
“We Are More”. Canadian Winter Olympics Poem.
Come on Olympics Committee of London 2012. Commission a poem to be read at The Olympics. like this one entitled We Are More by Shane Koyczan at the Winter Olympics in Canada. Millions of people have Read more [...]
The Brain Monitor. Eyes Wide With Wonder
She was alone in a room of her own at Royal London Hospital. Ten electrodes were attached to her head, one for each year of her life. “You get a personal poetry workshop. The others have to share Read more [...]
Colour Blind – A poem
Colour Blind By Lemn Sissay
If you can see the sepia in the sun
Shades of grey in fading streets
The radiating bloodshot in a child’s eye
The dark stains on her linen sheets
If you can see Read more [...]
Should Adoption Be Colour Blind?
Belfast taxi drivers are the adopted sons of the city. My taxi driver was actually adopted. He found his birth mother a year ago. Turns out she lived next door to his lifelong friend. That was Read more [...]