20th Century
Echoes from Eternity: 36. Beyond English sound-worlds
Lockdown, at last, is easing in the UK – after over 100 days. So I’m winding up this little series of poetry readings. But if
5th July 2020
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beauty
AMERICAS
Q Marks the Spot 141 (July 2020)
Sacred Treasure Carl Trueman has a simply superb First Things piece on Covid19, human mortality and modern culture’s avoidance of death: The Final Enemy Justin
1st July 2020
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beauty
Echoes from Eternity: 33. Clive James on his own Mortality
I was genuinely saddened by the news of Clive James’ death last year. He always struck me as such a fascinating and fascinated man, humane
11th June 2020
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20th Century
Echoes from Eternity: 31. Micheal O’Siadhail
Back to some poetry now. I first came across a poem by Micheal O’Siadhail in a lecture when I was at seminary. But I can’t
29th May 2020
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Ancient History
Echoes from Eternity: 30. Umberto Eco (pt2) Books in the library
There is so much good stuff in Eco’s collection that I couldn’t resist another outing after the last one (click the link for all the
22nd May 2020
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art & painting
Echoes from Eternity: 27. England (from Eland Books)
It seemed a good plan to turn to another of Eland’s Poetry of Place anthologies. This time, it’s England’s turn, compiled by A. N. Wilson.
13th May 2020
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Ancient History
Echoes from Eternity: 24. The Ruins of Time (from Eland Books)
A slightly different approach today. One of my favourite publishers is Eland Books – they specialise in bringing classics of travel writing back into print
3rd May 2020
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21st Century
Q Marks the Spot 139 (May 2020)
Sacred Treasure Comparing COVID-19 and the Chernobyl disaster? Here is a literature academic living in Turkey who grew up in Kyiv at the time of
1st May 2020
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20th Century
1917 and the Futile Pilgrimage
I got rather carried away after I saw the latest Sam Mendes film (in the cinema with friends in the States last October… who’d have
23rd April 2020
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20th Century
Echoes from Eternity 19. William Blake in Nicholas Winton’s Memorial Garden
William Blake (1757-1827) was one of a kind. A printer, an illustrator, a painter, a poet, a visionary, a provocateur. And that’s just the start
16th April 2020
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art & painting
Echoes from Eternity 18. John Donne
John Donne’s poetry is often difficult, sometimes perplexing and troubling, but always rewarding if closely attended to. He completely loses me quite often. But I
14th April 2020
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20th Century
Echoes from Eternity 17. Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s prison poems
This is Holy Saturday. It’s an in-between day, a limbo. It is deeply unsettling, especially if you need your world to be categorisable, identifiable, graspable.
11th April 2020
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