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I started gathering ideas for this book in 2008, working through sketchy notions about writers, writing and the relationship of both to global social change. I was mulling over the ways in which the notions of ethics, imagination and rhetoric, the concepts and the practices that have underpinned my work on public and professional writing, might be rethought and expanded on to take account of the forces influencing writing in an era of globalisation.
The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person, for our house is open, there are no keys in the doors, and invisible guests come in and out at will.
(Czesław Miłosz 1968, ‘Ars Poetica’)
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YouTube (2008), ‘Bush Dodges Shoes Thrown by Iraqi journalist’, 14 December, at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duLds-TZMGw.
W. Ibrahim (2008), ‘Iraqi Shoe-Throwing Reporter Becomes the Talk of Iraq’, Reuters, 15 December, at http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/12/15/us-iraq-bush-shoes-idUSTRE4BE28Q20081215. See also Ibrahim (2009).
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Surma, A. (2013). Introducing a Cosmopolitan Orientation to Writing. In: Imagining the Cosmopolitan in Public and Professional Writing. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137291318_1
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