Browsing by Subject "poetry"

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    Any human heart: life-writing in modern fiction & verse
    (2013) Wilson, Jean Moorcroft
    This course is by Dr Jean Moorcroft Wilson, biographer, publisher and lecturer at Birkbeck College, University of London. For lovers of literature and students who want an overview of the lives and writing of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath, Wiliam Boys and Yevgeny Yevtuschenko. For lovers of literature and students who want an overview of the lives and writing of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath, Wiliam Boys and Yevgeny Yevtuschenko.
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    Medicine and the Arts Week 1 - In dialogue about the heart
    (2015-01-21) Reid, Steve; Brink, Johan; Anderson, Peter; Henkeman, Stanley
    In this video, Professor Steve Reid poses additional questions to Professor Johan Brink, poet Peter Anderson, and heart transplant recipient Stanley Henkeman to try to tease out the different disciplinary perspectives on the heart and heart transplantation. This is the seventh video in Week 1 of the Medicine and the Arts Massive Open Online Course.
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    Medicine and the Arts Week 3 - "Wings" by Malika Ndlovu
    (2015-01-21) Ndlovu, Malika
    In this video, applied artist Malika Ndlovu performs a poetry reading. This is the second video in Week 3 of the Medicine and the Arts Massive Open Online Course.
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    Medicine and the Arts Week 5 - An insider view
    (2015-01-21) Reid, Steve
    In this video, Professor Steve Reid reflects on the various issues covered in the previous set of videos, namely the insider view of mental illness and how poetry and music can serve to improve the public's understanding of mental illness. This is the sixth video in Week 5 of the Medicine and the Arts Massive Open Online Course.
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    Medicine and the Arts Week 5 - Seeing and living with dementia
    (2015-01-21) Dowling, Finuala
    In this video, writer and poet Finuala Dowling introduces and read six short poems that are taken from her anthology ‘Notes from the Dementia Ward’. This is the second video in Week 5 of the Medicine and the Arts Massive Open Online Course.
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    Writers reading: favourite books
    (2013) Heyns, Michiel; Dowling, Finuala; Coovadia, Imraan; Omotoso, Yewande; Rose-Innes, Henrietta
    What books do writers read for pleasure? This course will reveal which recent books five prominent South African writers - Finuala Dowling, Michiel Heyns, Yewande Omotoso, Henrietta Rose-Innes and Imraan Coovadia - are currently enjoying and why. For anyone interested in learning more about what prominent SA writers read for pleasure.