As Peter Croft's illuminating Introduction makes clear, courtly love was still a potent influence on the Elizabethan poets, and Neoplatonic idealism informs much of Sidney's work.
Poets became the most potent harbingers of the new language as the Second Afrikaans Language Movement began; they included Leipoldt, Marais, Celliers, Jakob Daniel du Toit (Totius), Daniel François Malherbe, and Toon van den Heever.
With the death of Ahmad Shamlu, at the age of 74, Iran has not only lost its greatest contemporary poet but also its most potent symbol of intellectual conscience againt tyranny and repression.
In 20th century Northern Ireland, that was a potent force as generations of artists – from playwright and poet Seamus Heaney to the band Ash – sought to define themselves not as Protestant or Catholic, nationalist or loyalist, but primarily as human beings.
In the Renaissance, the most potent source of poetic inspiration was often believed to be the poet's own memory, the degree to which the poet could call up, just out of sheer recall, literary topoi or commonplaces stored in his or her memory from a lifetime of reading.
Ivan Birthistle and Vincent Doherty's backdrop of constant street noise, and Carol Betera's detailed set - rows of washing hanging above the grotty room shared by poet Donal and activist Seumas - create a potent atmosphere.
Walcott's latest book, White Egrets (Faber, £12.99) – "in these exquisitely poised and potent poems, language stands as the thinnest possible lens between the poet and the world," wrote our reviewer – didn't make the shortlist.
But the evening's panel discussion featuring Miller, Skolnik, Fuad, poet and educator Shannon Matesky, and activist Diana Morgan addressed a potent aspect about engaging with "the other".
Anselm Kiefer's art and its quotation of the Holocaust poet Paul Celan – of which you can see more in the Royal Academy's potent Kiefer exhibition – makes it clear that contemporary Germany has never forgotten that evil time.
"Forthright, entertaining, often potent essays that successfully intertwine personal history and historical context regarding black and white in America". A poet explores her experiences as a mother, teacher, black woman, and "conscientious outsider". Read full book review.
