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Arms Akimbo: A Review of Louise Bennett's Selected Poems

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SKU: cje-10-2-3-6

With characteristic lack of preamble, Louise Bennett leaps from the pages of this excellent selection of her poems. Less baleful but every bit as compelling as the Ancient Mariner, she catches the reader’s attention at once and carries him along on the tide of her vitality. Whether she arrests us with a hand on the shoulder (“But Goverment fas, eeh mah?

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Foreword

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SKU: cje-43-1-1

Poetry is multifaceted and timeless. Resultantly, its subject and its crafting provide a rich array of possibilities for engagement and use. Within this edition, poetry is presented as powerful, with the kinetic energy to teach, transform, and heal, even while revealing, subverting, and problematizing.

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What Happens When Poetry Teaches?

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SKU: cje-43-1-4

Poetry means different things to different people. This article examines poetry as a genre of literature where writers deliberately select words and artfully arrange them in such a way that they paint vivid images on the canvas of the reader’s mind. It notes that some schools neglect to include poetry as a part of the English Language Arts curriculum, and that even when it is included, there is an imbalance between teaching prose and poetry, and classrooms are fraught with fledgling uninspired teachers fumbling to get students engaged in this neglected literary form.

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Poetry in Film: Performance, Identity, and Crisis

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SKU: cje-43-1-5

This paper will examine the way poetry – and particularly the performance of poetry by adolescent characters – is represented in film. The paper argues that film offers a space within which it is possible to reflect in particularly probing ways on the relationship between poetry’s often contradictory roles in both expressing cultural norms and enabling repressed, neglected or forbidden aspects of individuals’ experience to be articulated.

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Re-membering Place, Shaping the future—the Poetry of Olive Senior

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SKU: CJE-006

“Without further commitments and action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the world is likely to warm by more than 3° above the preindustrial climate. Even with the current mitigation commitments and pledges fully implemented, there is roughly a 20 percent likelihood of exceeding 4° by 2100. If they are not met, a warming of 4° could occur as early as the 2060s.

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