Anglican, nature and metaphysical poets

Mia Anderson, priest and winner of the Montreal International Poetry Prize, is interviewed in the current edition of the Church Times.

In the interview, she highlights the long tradition of poet-priests including John Donne, George Herbert, Thomas Traherne, Euros Bowen, R.S. Thomas, Rowan Williams and David Scott, among others. She locates herself with the nature poets of any country including Henry Vaughan, Don McKay, Tim Liburn, Jan Zwicky and Mark Tredinnick.

Poetry also features in an insightful interview by Michael Symmons Roberts with John Drury in which they discuss the relative merits of the poetry of John Donne and George Herbert.

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John Donne - At The Round Earth's Imagined Corners.