The author compares the power of imagery in poetry with the unconscious images and re-imagining that allow us to see things in a new light in psychotherapy. Palestinian poetry illuminates their world and the devastation happening in Gaza in the way dreams capture our inner world. Emphasis is given to the role of the imagination in effecting social change, seen remarkably in the ‘Good Friday Agreement’ in Northern Ireland. The poetry of Seamus Heaney, for example, is linked with a fundamental perceptual shift around issues of national sovereignty. In his long-term support for Palestine, Heaney looked to poetry to redress the injustice and to counter the silencing and ‘turning a blind eye’. Nakba denial is seen as attacking the very life sustaining act of re-imagining.