Reflections: Staying – A Lesson from Lockdown
Andrew Watson | finds guidance in the wisdom of the Desert Fathers (and Mothers) during the Covid-19 pandemic
Reflections: The Transforming Power of Bread
Kawther Luay | contemplates the resurgence of bread-making during the Covid-19 lockdown, and offers two nourishing poems
Poems for These Times: 14
Seamus Heaney | From The Cure at Troy
“… So hope for a great sea-change
On the far side of revenge.
Believe that further shore
Is reachable from here…”
Poems for These Times: 13
Kathleen Raine | The Instrument
“… And it may be that soul extends
Organs of sense
Tuned to waves here scarcely heard…”
Poems for These Times: 12
Ted Hughes | A Green Mother
“Why are you afraid?
In the house of the dead are many cradles.
The earth is a busy hive of heavens…”
Poems for These Times: 11
John Milton | “Adam’s Lament” from Paradise Lost
“O miserable mankind, to what fall
Degraded, to what wretched state reserved!…”