• Author:agent John Kinsella http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/kinsella-john
Issue Details: First known date: 2023... 2023 Activating the Poetic Spirit as Friendship
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'Do we rely on having—or expect to ‘have’—a spirit even if we don’t believe they exist? I think of Emperor Hadrian’s address to his spirit or soul just before death, and wonder if it was a case of self-denial or self-delusion or maybe absolute certainty for all the crimes of power in the world of the living? Hadrian might have been lauded by some in his time as a beacon of wisdom and justice—a builder of things—but power is power and an empire is an empire.' (Introduction)

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  • Epigraph:

    Reason is to imagination as the instrument to the agent, as the body to the spirit, as the shadow to the substance.

    Shelley, A Defence of Poetry

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