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    <dc:date>2024-01-22T16:38:00+00:00</dc:date>
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      <description><![CDATA[&lsquo;A white bird trapped inside me beating scared wings&rsquo; -
Seamus Heaney, his Lost Sibling and Re-Imagining

by Mary Adams

In his long midlife poem, Station Island, Seamus Heaney&rsquo;s Dantesque journey, a penitential pilgrimage, he imagines a series of meetings with &lsquo;familiar ghosts&rsquo;, including James Joyce.&nbsp; Along the way, there is a sudden memory&mdash;in the most beautiful poetry--- of a &lsquo;seaside trinket&rsquo; that had belonged to his father&rsquo;s sister who died in her teens. Heaney described secretly looking at the trinket which had the status of a sacred relic, kept in a sideboard in his parent&rsquo;s bedroom, wrapped in white tissue paper, a little grotto shaped like a sentry box, clad in tiny iridescent seashells.

&hellip;pearls condense from a child invalid&rsquo;s breath
into a shimmering ark, my house of gold
that housed the snowdrop weather of her death
long ago&hellip;

&hellip;It was like touching birds&rsquo; eggs, robbing the nest
of the word wreath, as kept and dry and secret

as her name, which they hardly ever spoke
but ]]></description>
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      <title>Plea for the Establishment of a Ministry for Men in the Next German Administration</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Government ministry departments are constantly established, collapsed, abolished. A new ministry department is created when problems in a certain field increase, and when individuals, groups or the government realise this and subsequently act by establishing a new Ministry.

In West Germany, the Ministry for all-German affairs was created and later abolished in this manner during the cold war, and the German Family Ministry, changing with every administration, was also assigned the Departments of Youth, Women, Health or Sports. The Environmental Ministry was created by pressure of the Green Party, the Consumer Protection Ministry was created after the mad cow disease crisis (BSE), and the Office for the Recovery of East Germany is calling for its own Ministry as we speak.

The question therefore is whether men &ndash; as men &ndash; constitute a specific problem area and need their own Ministry to adress issues concerning men (or problems caused by men), and if so, how these problems differ from ]]></description>
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