Browsing by Subject "Poetry"

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    Die poësie van Ingrid Jonker
    (1971) Driesse, Oliver Edgar; Lindenberg, E; Van der Merwe Scholtz, H
    Van Ingrid Jonker is slegs drie digbundels gepubliseer, waarvan een postuum verskyn het. Ten spyte van hierdie skrale oeuvre het haar poësie by verskillende kritici hooggestemde waardering uitgelok. In In Memoriam Ingrid Jonker bespreek Uys Krige etlike van Ingrid Jonker se gedigte op verskeie van sy uitsprake kom ek in my bespreking van Rook en oker terug en konstateer hy o.m. dat "in haar beste (werk) Ingrid Jonker haar eie individualiteit en persoonlikheid, haar eie stem (het)" (p. 53). Hy vind "die beste van Ingrid Jonker se gedigte eersterangs", en meen dat "in Rook en oker … minstens twaalf eersterangse gedigte (is) wat 3) myns insiens sal bly staan in ons letterkunde". Krige spreek ook sy verbasing uit dat Dirk Opperman "My pop val stukkend" nie in Groot verseboek opgeneem het nie - hy sê dis "sonder twyfel … vir my een van die merkwaardigste moderne gedigte wat ek ken"
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    Dispatches from an older war
    (1999) Rousseau, Jacques; Watson, Stephen
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    Paramedics, poetry, and film: health policy and systems research at the intersection of theory, art, and practice
    (2019-08-07) Brady, Leanne; De Vries, Shaheem; Gallow, Rushaana; George, Asha; Gilson, Lucy; Louw, Moira; Martin, Abdul W; Shamis, Khalid; Stuart, Toni
    Abstract Violence is a public health issue. It is the consequence of a complex set of interacting political, social, and economic factors firmly rooted in past and current injustice. South Africa remains one of the most unequal countries in the world, and in some areas, the rates of violence are comparable to a country that is at war. Increasingly, paramedics working in high-risk areas of Cape Town are being caught in the crossfire, and in 2018, there was an attack on a paramedic crew nearly every week. These attacks are a symptom of much deeper, complex societal issues. Clearly, we require new approaches to better understand the complexity as we collectively find a way forward. It is in this context that we are collaborating with paramedics, poets, and filmmakers to tell human stories from the frontline thereby bringing the lived experiences of healthcare workers into policy making processes. In this commentary, we share a series of poems and a poetry-film that form part of a larger body of work focused on the safety of paramedics, to catalyze discussion about the possibilities that arts-based methods offer us as we seek to better understand and engage with complex social issues that have a direct impact on the health system.
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    Verses on Auschwitz : images of the Holocaust in modern American poetry
    (1995) Pager, Chet Kelii-Wallraff; Brink, Andre P; Watson, Stephen
    This thesis examines how poetic responses to the Holocaust in America, when they emerged, have differed from the novels addressing the same subject; how the Second World War has challenged, in a way the First World War did not, basic humanistic assumptions regarding the image of man, the role of God, the benefits of civilisation & culture, and the humanising power of art or reason; and how this impact has influenced modern trends in poetry. After an extensive background section documenting the impact the Holocaust and Second World War have made upon the literary imagination, an extensive review is conducted of the varied critical positions and criteria, both aesthetic and ethical, from which American literary responses have been evaluated. Among the major critical positions is the belief that there should be no literary response to the Holocaust; that this literary response must primarily serve to document and testify; that the Holocaust should not be addressed imaginatively by non-victims; and that the Holocaust should not be used as a metaphor to convey some other subject or theme. These and other critical standpoints are discussed in relation to works by ten American poets whose poetry is representative of the ways in which the Holocaust has impacted on the poetic imagination, the breadth of poetic responses to this atrocity, and the range of difficulties and corresponding criticisms which are associated with almost all attempts to respond creatively to the Holocaust. The poets examined are Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Maxine Kumin, Adrienne Rich, Denise Levertov, Stephen Berg, Van Brock, W.D. Snodgrass, William Heyen and Charles Reznikoff. Where illustrative, comparisons to relevant European poets have been made, including Nellie Sachs and Paul Celan. It was concluded that certain poets (Levertov, Rich, Heyen), as well as certain critical standpoints (Ezrahi, Langer, James Young) did more justice to the reality of the Holocaust and the challenges it poses to the literary and poetic imagination. Bibliography: p. 135-140.