Poet is the object of scorn and derision in Plato’s the Republic. He even thought manufacturer was a more socially recognized occupation than poet. In Plato’s idea, handicraft was the “copy” of the “real world”, and the literary output was only the imitation of “copy”, which not only stray from the “true”, but would even misguide people. Plato’s opinion mirrors the philosopher’s distrust of Lan...

I have recently been renewing my acquaintance with Rudyard Kipling Rudyard Kipling the poet, that is, as distinct from Rudyard Kipling the short-story writer and part-time novelist. R.K. the poet is very much out of favour at present, and has been these twenty years. I suppose this disfavour springs from his identification with the spirit of Empire, with the Raj, with the Great White Sahib, wit...

The publication of Fourth Quarter, Judith Wright's latest volume of poetry, is a significant event, occurring as it does just thirty years after her hrst volume The Moving Image. In a way, the poems of Fourth Quarter crystallise many of the themes which have preoccupied the poet during those thirty years. At the same time, the poet has not lost her power to surprise us with her new and often qu...

We present POET, a scripting language designed for applying advanced program transformations to code in arbitrary programming languages as well as building adhoc translators between these languages. We have used POET to support a large number of compiler optimizations, including loop interchange, parallelization, blocking, fusion/fission, strength reduction, scalar replacement, SSE vectorizatio...