Time and Faith within the Urban and the Rural, Part 1
Over the past year, my transition from the car horns and sirens of Philadelphia to the call of seagulls in St Andrews has put…
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Singing with Madam Jazz: A Conversation with Micheal O’Siadhail
In one of his many essays on Milton, Northrop Frye defines the epic poem as a ‘special kind’ of narrative poem that does more…
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TheoArtistry Festival: Sacred Music for the 21st Century
On the 5th and 6th of March 2018, scholars, composers and poets descended upon the medieval town of St Andrews in order to explore…
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Waiting on the Word: John Donne’s ‘Annunciation’
Editor’s Note: For our first Advent reflection on Malcolm Guite’s, Waiting on the Word (Canterbury Press, 2015), Kimberley Anderson engages with John Donne’s sonnet, ‘Annunciation’. Perhaps…
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Waiting on the Word: A Reflective Symposium
Our current inability to contemplate the breadth and depth of any social, political or theological issue is the result of our perceived necessity for…
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Call for Poets: The TheoArtistry Poets’ Scheme
Poets are invited to apply for this workshop and collaboration opportunity and the chance to spend time in sessions including creative workshops with ITIA…
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‘About Suffering They Were Never Wrong’
Just before the dawn of the bloodiest century, Mark Twain conducted ‘scientific experiments’ in the London Zoological Gardens in which he contrasted the characteristics…
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Review: The Poetics of Evil
Philip Tallon, The Poetics of Evil: Toward an Aesthetic Theodicy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. xx + 252 pp., £52.00/$84.00 With refreshingly lucid prose…
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Surviving the Sahara: On Being Bored
In his 1989 address to the graduating class of Dartmouth College the Russian poet Joseph Brodsky decided to forego the platitudes that comprise such…
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