When Emily Dickinson wrote the poem “Hope is that thing like feathers” in 1861, she couldn’t have imagined a world like we have today, so desperately in need of hope. Yet it is a modern-day reminder ...

Emily Dickinson and I have always had a thing. It’s no surprise that a shy girl would find a kindred spirit in the recluse poet from Amherst, Massachusetts. A woman the world neither understood nor ...

Jen Webb has received funding from the Australian Research Council. A huge bestseller when it was published in 2015, it is one of many books in literary history that deal with grief – whether it is ...

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