This week the theme is "creativity" to mark the BBC's Get Creative weekend.
"The big underlying theme is creativity," he said.
It's a troubling piece that confronts both depression (suicide is a recurrent theme) and creativity.
Alas, the story's central conflict — the interference of a greedy archduke who appears out of nowhere to demand the yarn for himself — feels out of place, as the theme of creativity trumping negativity was already pleasing on its own.
The theme of creativity and innovation is well corroborated in many exemplars to be found in our empirical findings: Scott McNealy stated, "When we started Sun, I knew there was no way if we were to adopt Microsoft's operating system that we could survive long-term.
This volume publishes the proceedings of the Theban Symposium that took place in May 2010, in Granada, Spain, at the Institute for Arabic Studies of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), on the general theme of "Creativity and Innovation in the Reign of Hatshepsut". The volume contains nineteen papers that present new perspectives on the reign of Hatshepsut and the early New Kingdom.
Predictably, the conference theme was creativity in the face of austerity.
A variation from the circular form, "the theme celebrates creativity in its use of symbolic reference," according to the artist.
In fact, at the MBN Forum, where I spoke earlier this week, the theme was "Creativity for Growth and the Greater Good".
At its best his mature style combined passion and precision with powerful symbol, strong rhythm, and lucid diction; and even though his poetry often touched upon public themes, he never ceased to reflect upon the Romantic themes of creativity, selfhood, and the individual's relationship to nature, time, and history.
