Poetry and COVID-19: the benefit of poetry and the
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Caleshu, Anthony; Waterman, Rory; Kemp, Sam

doi:10.1080/08893675.2023.2250921

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“Everything Is Going To Be All Right”: Poetry as “Covid Comfort”?

Naugrette-Fournier

2024

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This article examines the artistic and, in particular, poetic response to the COVID-19 pandemic, that was witnessed in the Republic of Ireland in 2020. I will first try to show how this poetic response to the pandemic is linked to the historical and traditional role of the figure of the poet in Ireland, the “file”, and to the poet’s speaking out in the Irish public sphere during major historical events. With this in mind, I shall then analyze several case studies, such as the remarkable influence of a phrase uttered by Seamus Heaney used again during the Irish lockdown, or the impact of a poem by the President of the Republic of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins, himself a poet, eventually leading to the launch of an advertising campaign designed to reinforce physical distancing during lockdown. After examining other Irish artistic productions linked to Covid-19, I shall conclude with a counterexample, that is poet Paul Muldoon’s critical analysis of Derek Mahon’s famous poem, ‘Everything Is Going To Be All Right’, which enjoyed immense success during the pandemic in Ireland and was perceived by many as a poem of comfort and hope. But can any poem be reinterpreted as part of the literary sub-genre of “pandemic poetry”?

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“Everything Is Going To Be All Right”: Poetry as “Covid Comfort”?

Naugrette-Fournier

2024

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Advances in Literary and (Neuro)Linguistics Skills That Can Contribute to Healing

Martines

2024

Educational Innovation to Address Complex Societal Challenges

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This chapter analyses the influence of bibliotherapy on the perceptions of readers (children, young people, and [older] adults) with special needs on their form of social interaction. By reading and writing, and by explaining to others what they read and write, by talking about plots, by expressing opinions and emotions, feelings and thoughts are articulated, and expressive (linguistic), relational, cognitive, and neurological abilities are improved. From linguistics (theoretical, applied, and cognitive), literary studies, translation/multilingual environments, and pedagogy (literacy, didactics of language, and literature), methodological approaches and interventions that can be useful and effective in bibliotherapy to activate neurocognitive abilities are provided. Furthermore, bibliotherapy is presented as a coherent option for improving the management of situations of confinement, physical, real, voluntary, imposed, or perceived loneliness.

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Poetry and COVID-19: the benefit of poetry and the poetryandcovidarchive.com website to mental health and wellbeing

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“Everything Is Going To Be All Right”: Poetry as “Covid Comfort”?

“Everything Is Going To Be All Right”: Poetry as “Covid Comfort”?

Advances in Literary and (Neuro)Linguistics Skills That Can Contribute to Healing

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