Make a whistle from my throat: Giving voice to the voiceless
Make a whistle from my throat I do not know what will happen after I die. I do not want to know. But I would like the Potter to make a whistle from the clay of my throat. May this…
Anna M. Blanch is a regular contributor to Transpositions. She is Australian by birth, and inclination, Anna grew up surrounded by the Australian bush, a large extended family, bush poetry, and sport. Anna is currently writing her PhD in Theology and Literature. She finds photography, enjoying her environment and its fruits, and being in community bring her joy.
Plastic Flowers and Paving: The Aesthetics of Surburbia
Surburbia has never appealed to me. Until ten years ago, I had almost always lived in places where we couldn’t even see our neighbours, let alone hear them. The Australian bush will spoil you like that. As a consequence, hearing…
The Possibility of Art in Ordinary Moments
We photograph ourselves, our families and the details of our lives with a kind of frequency unknown through human history. Photographic capturing techniques are after all only an invention of the mid-nineteenth century. But in recent years, with the availability…
Sacred Street Art and the Soul of a Community
Street art and the sacred might seem like an odd pairing at first blush. But for Artist and Methodist minister Ric Stott the act and activity of creating art in abandoned, almost desolate, spaces is one of creative hope. For…
Art of Collaboration (part I): an apologia for collaboration in theology and the arts.
This is the first post in a two part post collaboratively written by Jenn Craft and Anna Blanch. Part II, titled, “Practical considerations when approaching collaboration theologically” will be published on 28 January, 2012. Coming out of the Hospitable Texts…
E. Nesbit as Fantasy God-Mother
For many readers – H.G. Wells and Laurence Houseman, G.K. Chesterton and Noel Coward – for these and thousands more, the most magical stories of modern times are those by that Edwardian wizard E. Nesbit…To come upon any Nesbit today,…
Ambivalent Anticipation: Advent
This is the first week of a new year; the new liturgical year, that is. But in the face of the end of civic calendar (at least in the West), the season of advent often seems like an add-on to an…
Review: The Liturgical Year
Joan Chittister, Liturgical Year: The Spiraling Adventure of the Spiritual Life, Thomas Nelson: Nashville, 2009. The Liturgical Year is part of the The Ancient Practices Series from Thomas Nelson. The books in this series explore different aspects of Christian practice including fasting, the…
E.Nesbit and her Child Readers
Seamus Heaney’s “The Railway Children” from his 1984 collection Station Island, offers an almost ekphrastic response to E. Nesbit’s classic British children’s story, The Railway Children. In the poem, Heaney comments on the perception of the world by children and…