Shapcott's political outlook led her to refuse a CBE in 2003 – an act she has never spoken about publicly before.
It was easier for lesbians, of course, though still never spoken about, but gay men and kids?
Zarin writes here about her recognition that the New Yorker of that era ran on "the idea that what was most important was what was never spoken about".
The most ambitious effort is what will be called the Michelson Prize, which he's never spoken about publicly before.
In the play, there's this backdrop of the Holocaust that's never spoken about, but it's there.
There are many things that I've never spoken about, and I'm very lucky to have got through it".
Drugs were never spoken about; instead, there was much talk of "precious stones," "shirts," and "precious cotton".
Women were having abortions or used other means to terminate pregnancies yet it was never spoken about because it was considered obscene.
They'd never spoken about it.
"We've never spoken about that again," he told his peers.
He had never spoken about the war before, nor revisited the battlefields.
