An imaginary poetry anthology

Here's an imagined poetry anthology for which I would pay good money:

• A, a, a, Domine Deus – David Jones
• A Glass Full – Sarah Law
• A Prayer in Spring - Robert Frost
• A Song of Derivations – Alice Meynell
• A Spell For Creation – Kathleen Raine
• A Theological Treatise - Czeslaw Milosz
• Advent – Brian Coffey
• Advent - Patrick Kavanagh
• Advent Calendar – Rowan Williams
• Advice to a Young Prophet - Thomas Merton
• The Altar at Isenheim - Steve Scott
• An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow - Les Murray
• And death shall have no dominion – Dylan Thomas
• The Annunciation – Elizabeth Jennings
• At St Helen's, Ranworth - Chris Emery
• Baptism – Franz Wright
• Believe Me - Irina Ratushinskaya
• The bright field – RS Thomas
• Cain Reverses Time - Luke Kennard
• Christ in the Clay-pit – Jack Clemo
• Christmas and the Common Birth - Anne Ridler
• The City of Man – Charles Williams
• Conversations - Tasos Leivaditis
• Creed – Gabriela Mistral
• Creed – Steve Turner
• Crón Tráth na nDéithe - Thomas MacGreevy
• The Dark Path – David Miller
• The Duino Elegies – Rainer Maria Rilke
• Easter Monday - Eleanor Farjeon
• Eleven Addresses to the Lord – John Berryman
• Epiphany – Martin Wroe
• For One Who Is Exhausted, a Blessing - John O’Donohue
• Gloria in Profundis – GK Chesterton
• The Hastily Assembled Angel Considers What It Means to Be Made in the Image Of - Shane McCrae
• The Heart’s Desire is Full of Sleep - Ruth Pitter
• Holy the Firm – Annie Dillard
• Horae Canonicae – WH Auden
• Idiot Psalms – Scott Cairns
• In a Corner of Eden – Peter Levi
• Indifference - Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy
• Instructions for Angels – Rupert Loydell
• Jairus – Michael Symmons Roberts
• Journey – Kathleen Norris
• Kalymnos: November 29, 1968 - Robert Lax
• Kenosis – Luci Shaw
• Lachrimae Amantis – Geoffrey Hill
• Little Gidding – TS Eliot
• Look at the Revival – Theresa Lola
• Lough Derg – Denis Devlin
• The Maori Jesus – James K Baxter
• Miserere – David Gascoyne
• The Monk and Her Seaside Dreams - Fanny Howe
• Morning Worship – Mark Van Doren
• Not the Millennium – UA Fanthorpe
• On hold – Tim Cunningham
• On Religion – Khalil Gibran
• O Sapientia – Malcolm Guite
• Out Of The Blue - Michael O'Siadhail
• Peace in the Welsh Hills – Vernon Watkins
• The Peace of Wild Things – Wendell Berry
• Poem 133: The Summer Day – Mary Oliver
• The Portal of the Mystery of Hope - Charles Péguy
• Praying Drunk – Andrew Hudgins
• Prophecy – Dana Gioia
• The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket – Robert Lowell
• The Redeemer - Siegfried Sassoon
• Resurrection – Noel Rowe
• The Road to Emmaus – Spencer Reece
• Sacramental - Kevin Crossley Holland
• The Sacraments - Louise Erdrich
• Shepherds' Carol - Norman Nicholson
• Still Falls the Rain – Edith Sitwell
• This Living Earth – Ernesto Cardenal
• To Live in the Mercy of God - Denise Levertov
• The Transfiguration – Edwin Muir
• Vanished Fire – James Matthew Wilson
• The Virgin at Noon - Paul Claudel
• Words of the Unknown Soldier - John F Deane
• Zen Poem – Daniel Berrigan

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 other poetry 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 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.

IT have also published several of my poems, including 'The ABC of creativity', which covers attention, beginning and creation, and 'The Edge of Chaos', a state of current 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. 'Deflated Ego 18: Jonathan Evens on Jonathan Evens' is an article I wrote for Stride Magazine about the 'Five Trios' series of 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:

• 'Barking';
• 'Bradwell';
• 'Broomfield';
• 'Pleshey'; and
• 'Runwell'.

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. My poems published in Amethyst Review are: '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.

Several of my short stories have 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 key literature posts (including poetry) are:

• There were giants in those days (1)
• There were giants in those days (2)
• There were Giants in those days (3)
• There were giants in those days (4)
• The Modern & Contemporary Catholic Novel (1)
• The Modern & Contemporary Catholic Novel (2)
• The Modern & Contemporary Catholic Novel (3)
• The Modern & Contemporary Catholic Novel (4)
• The Modern & Contemporary Catholic Novel (5)
• The poetry of connection
• Debate: Has Fiction Lost It's Faith?
• Jesus is having a moment in literary fiction
• Endo & Scorsese: Approaching Silence
• Contemporary Fiction and Christianity
• Debate: Has Fiction Lost It's Faith? (2)
• Jack Clemo: The Invading Gospel
• Dealing with faith and with secularism is difficult but necessary now
• The poet’s eloquently passionate struggle at the junction of doubt and devotion
• Christian Arts renaissance: Major or minor?
• T.S. Eliot: Christianity, fragmentation and reconciliation
• Jesus Novels & Films: The Greatest Story Ever Told
• Acts of the Assassins and Jesus Novels
• Czeslaw Milosz, Oscar Milosz and Simone Weil
• Blogs: cryingforavision & Stride magazine
• Tasos Leviaditis: The Blind Man with the Lamp
• Religious concerns in Greek poetry
• Thomas Merton and Latin American poets
• American Catholic poets & writers
• Connections of Sister Corita Kent and Norman Nicholson
• Ernesto Cardenal RIP
• Czeslaw Milosz, Jerzy Andrzejewski, Oskar Milosz, and Aleksander Wat
• Faith, Mystery & Poetry
• Elizabeth Jennings & David Gascoyne: Mystical Experience and the Making of Poems
• Roots of the Catholic Literary Revival

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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