Celebrating World Poetry Day
On World Poetry Day, Australian poet and newly announced Education Writer-in-Residence Mark Tredinnick speaks of the beauty and the potential of the poetic art form. Poetry is a world language. It catches and releases the world in its other life, the one the daily discourses of theory and politics and commerce and digital chatter overlook. No matter which language it finds expression in, poetry speaks for each of us in our deepest hurt and highest aspiration - it catches better than any other literature, possibly any other art, the inner life of the actual world, and the felt sense of what it is to be human. It overhears the music of the intelligence of things and says them as if reminding us of who we really are and what this is all really about. Poetry has always served these purposes, redeeming language and reminding us of the carnal and sacred nature of things - forgiving us for being human and at the same time holding us to account. It makes order of disorder.
