The Editor-in-chief is
Sarah Law – poet (mainly), tutor, occasional critic, sometime fiction writer. She has published five poetry collections, the latest of which is '
Thérèse: Poems'. Her novel,
Sketches from a Sunlit Heaven is a 2023 Illumination Book Award silver medal winner. She set up Amethyst Review feeling the lack of a UK-based platform for the sharing and readership of new literary writing that engages in some way with spirituality and the sacred.
My poems to have been published in
Amethyst Review are: '
Prayer',
'Runwell',
'Are/Are Not',
'Attend, attend' and
'Maritain, Green, Beckett and Anderson in conversation down through the ages'.
I am among those whose poetry has been included in
Thin Places & Sacred Spaces, a recent anthology from
Amethyst Press. I also had a poem included in
All Shall Be Well: Poems for Julian of Norwich, the first
Amethyst Press anthology of new poems.
'Five Trios' is a series of poems on thin places and sacred spaces in the
Diocese of Chelmsford. The five poems in the series are:
These poems have been published by
Amethyst Review and
International Times.
To read my poems published by Stride, click
here,
here,
here,
here,
here, and
here. International Times have also published other of my poems, including '
Spencer Reece at Bemerton' which is based on the visit that I made to Bemerton in 2026 with
Spencer Reece, '
The ABC of creativity', which covers attention, beginning and creation, and '
The Edge of Chaos', a state of existence
poem. Also published have been three poems from my
'Five Trios' series.
'Barking' is about
St Margaret’s Barking and
Barking Abbey and draws on my time as a curate at St Margaret's.
'Bradwell' is a celebration of the history of the
Chapel of St Peter-on-the-Wall, the
Othona Community, and of pilgrimage to those places.
Broomfield in Essex became a
village of artists following the arrival of Revd John Rutherford in 1930. His daughter, the artist
Rosemary Rutherford, also moved with them and made the vicarage a base for her artwork including paintings and stained glass. Then,
Gwynneth Holt and
Thomas Bayliss Huxley-Jones moved to Broomfield in 1949 where they shared a large studio in their garden and both achieved high personal success.
'Broomfield' reviews their stories, work, legacy and motivations.
Several of my short stories have also been published by
IT including three about
Nicola Ravenscroft's
EarthAngel sculptures (then called mudcubs), which we exhibited at
St Andrew's Wickford in 2022. The first story in the series is '
The Mudcubs and the O Zone holes'. The second is
'The Mudcubs and the Clean-Up King', and the third is '
The mudcubs and the Wall'. My other short stories to have been published by International Times are '
The Black Rain', a story about the impact of violence in our media, '
The New Dark Ages', a story about principles and understandings that are gradually fading away from our modern societies, and '
The curious glasses', a story based on the butterfly effect.
For more of my poems, see
here, and for my poetic meditations, see
here.
My first
review of poetry for
Tears in the Fence was of
'Modern Fog' by
Chris Emery. My second
review was of '
The Salvation Engine' by
Rupert Loydell and my third was of
'For All That’s Lost' by
David Miller. My poetry reviews for
Stride include a
review of two poetry collections, one by
Mario Petrucci and the other by
David Miller, a
review of
Temporary Archive: Poems by Women of Latin America, a
review of
Fukushima Dreams by
Andrea Moorhead, a
review of
Endangered Sky by
Kelly Grovier and
Sean Scully, a
review of
John F. Deane's
Selected & New Poems, a
review of
God's Little Angel by
Sue Hubbard and a
review of
Spencer Reece's
'Acts'.
My poetry-related pieces for IT are: an
interview with artist, poet, priest
Spencer Reece, an
interview with the poet
Chris Emery, plus reviews of: '
Collected Poems' by
Kevin Crossley-Holland;
'Breaking Lines' at the
Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, albums by
Deacon Blue, Mumford and Sons, and Andrew Rumsey, and '
What Is and Might Be and then Otherwise' by David Miller. I have also published pieces on poetry at Seen and Unseen - a
profile of the poet Theresa Lola - and the Journal of Theological Studies - a
review of Faith, Hope and Poetry: Theology and the Poetic Imagination by Malcolm Guite. For more on poetry, read my
ArtWay interview with David Miller
here and my interview with Rupert Loydell
here. See also Rupert Loydell's
interview with poet and musician Steve Scott. My own dialogues with
Steve can be read
here,
here,
here,
here, and
here. For thoughts on the links between poetry and prayer see
here and
here.
My key literature posts (including poetry) are:
See also 'Art and Faith: Decades of Engagement:
Introduction,
1880s,
1890s,
1900s,
1910s,
1920s,
1930s,
1940s,
1950s,
1960s,
1970s, and
1980s.
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