art & painting
Echoes from Eternity 23. Wry Smiles with Wendy Cope
Everything is still so weird. So we need to let our hair down a bit. We need to have a few laughs. So here is
2nd May 2020
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Poetry
Echoes from Eternity
Echoes from Eternity: 22. Seamus Heaney out and about
If you find yourself talking about nature in poetry, it is inevitable before too long that Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) is going to crop up. He
27th April 2020
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BOOKS/WRITING
Echoes from Eternity 21. Gerard Manley Hopkins in Spring
It’s almost as if there’s a contradiction in terms between the glories of the early English spring and this season of Covid19 horror and fear.
22nd April 2020
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apologetics
Echoes from Eternity: 20. C. S. Lewis’ poems
Most don’t associate Lewis with his poetry. My understanding is, however, he would have far preferred to be known as a poet than almost anything
20th 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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20th Century
Echoes from Eternity 16: John Stott’s Cross of Christ
It is Good Friday so the subject matter for the day’s reading presented itself easily enough. Choosing what to read, however, was a very different
10th April 2020
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AMERICAS
Echoes from Eternity 14: Maya Angelou
Today, the voice of an angel. Nope, I don’t have delusions of celestial proportions. I’m referring to the great African-American writer, Maya Angelou (1928-2014) who
7th April 2020
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18th Century
Echoes from Eternity 13. Christopher Smart’s Cat Jeoffry
I know little about Christopher Smart (1722-1771), apart from the fact that the suffered the torments, like his almost contemporary William Cowper, of an eighteenth-century
6th April 2020
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art & painting
Echoes from Eternity 12. Two for Palm Sunday
So apologies are due; a daily echo was proving a little too much to manage, especially because we’ve been beset by various challenges in the
5th April 2020
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20th Century
Echoes from Eternity 11. A Bygone pre-War England
The sun came out yesterday, the sky filled with cotton wool clouds, and birds chirped merrily. An idyllic English afternoon in early Spring, in fact.
1st April 2020
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