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Most recently, Heaney’s versatility as a thinker has revealed itself in a new translation of Sophocles’ Antigone, which he discussed last night in Yenching Auditorium. The talk was the final one of a three lecture series which covered a range of literary topics, from the importance of integrating poetry into everyday life to the context of his new book. The translation demonstrates the ways in which his wisdom has stemmed from a variety of sources far beyond his native Ireland...
...underwent a crucial transformation, moving back to the Irish country and spent four years concentrating solely on his poetry. “That clinched it,” he says, and so he began the long journey that would bring him into international acclaim as a writer and thinker...
...simply, Seamus Heaney inspires the desire to be a better writer and thinker. That alone is worth clearing a calendar...
...While he is often described as a thinker, he's not one to dwell on the abstract. He's more of an analyst and problem solver: as Americans say, a policy wonk. Still, several themes have endured. First, there's enormous self-belief; Latham "backs himself" and would like others to aspire to better things. Second, he believes in Labor - not just as a political party, but as a movement - "a movement that needs to energize its base and create new causes and constituencies," as he wrote in From the Suburbs. These two streams come together in his desire...
Like his party leader, Lindsay Tanner, 48, is a thinker, writer and agent of change. Since he was elected as the federal member for Melbourne in 1993, the tall and easy-going former union official has been at the forefront of his party's renewal - gently nudging his colleagues to modernize their ideas, arguing for reform in the public domain and working within traditonal political structures. He's rarely inspired headlines or been the front man for a social movement. Despite a talent for communicating, he's not the publicity-seeking type. Yet Tanner's influence on Labor...