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Secular Culture: Humanist, atheist and scientific poetry needed!

Secular Culture: Humanist, atheist and scientific poetry needed!

Last updated on: December 1, 2015 at 4:16 pm by Guest Contributor

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By Jonathan Pearce

I am presently collating an anthology of humanist, atheist, scientific and philosophical poetry. And I need your help. I am probably 20 poems away from completion (but will happily take more!) and just need that final push to get the project into the final stages.

I think there is a niche in the market here for some such poetry. As we see the modern atheist movement (whatever the hell that is and however it can be defined) move into something approaching a public maturity, so culture surrounding these now more public beliefs is expanding and reacting and reflecting.

Poetry is a really useful medium, an outlet for expression. Within this subject areas, there is everything that fulfils the subject criteria for great poetry: death, meaning, love, knowledge, justice (oh, and God) – all of which are dealt with in different ways by that variety of people who do not believe in a god.

It has been absolutely fascinating reading and compiling these poems due to the various forms, styles and content that they have contained.

The objective is to collect a number of poems, somewhere up to 120, and compile them under topics such as:

meaning of life
god
death
morality
science
the Bible

and so on.

If you have a submission or know someone who might for an anthology broadly humanistic in nature, send it here.

The working title is “Filling the Void: A Selection of Atheist and Humanist Poetry.”

Please spread the word!

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Jonathan MS Pearce is a philosopher, author, teacher, public speaker and blogger from Hampshire in the UK. Running a small skeptical publishing company (Onus Books), he looks to spread the skeptical word. He has authored several books including Free Will? An Investigation into whether we have free will or whether I was always going to write this book, The Nativity: A Critical Examination and The Little Book Of Unholy Questions.

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