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Dua Lipa is a Poet Too – On National Poetry Day, Let’s Celebrate the Power of Words to Move Us

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aut.relation.volumeThe Conversation
dc.contributor.authorHarvey, Siobhan
dc.date.accessioned2025-04-08T21:21:37Z
dc.date.available2025-04-08T21:21:37Z
dc.date.issued2024-08-23
dc.descriptionThe significance and solace of poetry is closer than you think, I tell budding authors as they arrive at class with headphones on, glued to TikTok trends, or scrolling through Instagram feeds. Given their youth, they begin to air archaic ideas about what poetry is: something that’s difficult to decipher, hard to write. Asked to name a poet, their minds often retreat into the historical darkness where they locate Shakespeare. Perhaps a name surfaces from an era a little closer to our own – Emily Dickinson, say, or Sylvia Plath. It’s then I offer them Dua Lipa and Benson Boone, and screen YouTube videos of “New Rules” and “Beautiful Things”. Poetry originated in oral narrative, after all. Long before Gutenberg invented the printing press, long before the Sumerians and others developed script, humans entertained and educated, connected and comforted one another through the lyrical word. Whether short, memorised stories exchanged between the poor and uneducated, ancestral endeavours retold at community gatherings, or epics recited for the delectation of royal courts, poetry was global and democratic. It still is.
dc.identifier.citationThe Conversation. August 23, 2024. Retrieved from: https://theconversation.com/dua-lipa-is-a-poet-too-on-national-poetry-day-lets-celebrate-the-power-of-words-to-move-us-235587
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10292/19013
dc.publisherThe Conversation
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dc.subjectTikTok
dc.subjectLord Byron
dc.subjectPlagiarism
dc.subjectPoetry
dc.subjectArtificial intelligence (AI)
dc.subjectNew Zealand
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