Rose Flint is an art therapist and poet. She is a teacher of creative writing and uses poetry in her healthcare work. She believes in the power of metaphoric language to integrate our lives and to give soul to a functional world which has lost relationship with the spiritual dimension.
She writes: “Every day more and more facts relating to our changing world are given to us through the media, yet often their effect is to numb us into helplessness, rather than to encourage us to engage and change. Poets can use their language of story and metaphor, of image and vision, to translate science and ...
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