Dylan Thomas, Poem in October, read by Dylan Thomas
It was my thirtieth year to heaven Woke to my hearing from harbour and neighbour wood And the mussel pooled and the heron Priested shore The morning beckon With water…
Category: commonplace book
“Of Smelly Monks and Annoying Neighbours” – Hannah LeGrand in Comment Magazine
Hannah LeGrand has a review of Kyle David Bennet’s Practices of Love in Comment Magazine which is worth reading. I’ve posted before on the romanticisation of monasticism. Both those who…
“it is very difficult not to anthropomorphise puffins” – Peter Reason on Puffins
I have been posting some thoughts inspired by Peter Reason’s book In Search of Grace. I am trying not to let this blog turn into nothing but a series of…
Peter Reason on being a pilgrim and being a tourist
I recently re-blogged a section from Peter Reason’s new book, In Search of Grace. I’ve been reading it over the weekend and am sorely tempted to simply copy out sections.…
“an author whose books were marvellous but rather the same” – Elizabeth Taylor and Andrei Makine
I have just begun reading Elizabeth Taylor’s At Mrs Lippincote’s (not, it feels obligatory to point out, not that Elizabeth Taylor. From Valerie Martin‘s introduction: Though I never met either…
Eleanor Parker on myths about the Middle Ages
An interesting piece that touches on anti-Catholic myths, historical myths, and science vs. religion myths. The medieval Church, let’s be clear, had no objection to scientific progress. Throughout the Middle…
“Hell is where the damned stay, immobilized by their choices” – Rowan Williams on The Divine Comedy, TLS, September 12th 2017
From this review There is still a tendency among not very attentive readers – not to mention people who have read almost nothing of the work but have picked up…
“In Search of Grace” , Peter Reason
From James Common’s blog, an extract from a fascinating sounding book whose themes seem to chime with my own interests. I particularly found this passage resonant: ‘Silence’ is a fascinating…
Séamus Sweeney 