From Dante’s Woods: The Patience of Hope
From the Dante’s Woods blog: The Church should model this too, as [Rowan] Williams says, “This suggests that the Church needs to be marked by profound patience: patience with actual…
Tag: Dante
Flannery and Dante – a poem by Angela Alaimo O’Donnell
At The Other Journal I come across this poem “riffing on Flannery O’Connor’s fandom for Dante” as the site itself puts it: Flannery and Dante For my money Dante is about as…
Poem: Magheragallon
A while back I posted a link to Non-Binary Review’s call for submissions for pieces inspired directly by Dante’s Inferno. Unfortunately (or not) my own efforts in this line were…
Fiction (and poetry) update
It’s been a while since I posted a fiction update – Jan 2017 to be precise. The one before that was two years ago. Alas, the pattern of outlets I…
Dorothy L Sayers on Dante’s Inferno as a portrait of social collapse
From Introductory Dante Papers, Dorothy L Sayers: That the Inferno is a picture of human society in a state of sin and corruption, everybody will readily agree. And since we…
Non-Binary Review call for submissions on Dante’s Inferno (deadline 24th Oct 2018)
More info here: NonBinary Review is a quarterly digital literary journal that joins poetry, fiction, essays, and art around each issue’s theme. We invite authors to explore each theme in…
What do you want? (or, You Are What You Want)
From Gil Bailie‘s “God’s Gamble: The Gravitational Power of Crucified Love”: “In any case, they were hardly prepared for a colloquy with the Lamb of God, the one poised to…
I Taught Myself To Live Simply – Anna Akhmatova
I taught myself to live simply and wisely, to look at the sky and pray to God, and to wander long before evening to tire my superfluous worries. When the…
Séamus Sweeney 