Keywords: Religious Poetry
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INTERNATIONAL
- James Dorsey
- 13 July 2010
6 Comments
One Moroccan organisation for lesbians,
transsexuals and homo- and bisexuals, estimates
that some 5000 people have been jailed in Morocco or forced to emigrate
because they are gay. Mithly, the Arab world's only gay magazine, hopes to steer the debate into calmer waters.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Peter Steele
- 30 April 2010
1 Comment
Feed and clothe this Australian poet and lodge him in a library attached to a music venue, and remarkable things would happen. He made of London a country of the mind, its vices, virtues, constant features and mutability there to be inspected and eventually portrayed.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Philip Harvey
- 19 March 2010
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The poet Rainer Maria Rilke's 'God', writes Stephanie Dowrick, 'is a vulnerable neighbour one moment, like a clump
of a hundred roots the next; an ancient work of art, then a
much-needed hand, a cathedral, a dreamer. Absent here, breath-close
there; as often in darkness as in light.'
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ARTS AND CULTURE
it’s a god of sugar, a god of shallow forgives, it’s a god of stained truth and glass asunder.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
What a pity gay Christians, who might so
greatly enrich and evolve our religious institutions if permitted to flourish, are still obliged to eke their way
along the shadowy paths of discretion if they want to be part of God's gang.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Charlotte Clutterbuck
- 02 March 2010
5 Comments
now because of you kneeling .. beside me, thumbing the scarred leather .. of the little mass-book your grandmother .. hid at the back of her Protestant linen-press
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- P.S. Cottier
- 17 November 2009
2 Comments
They might not throw beer bottles and therefore shatter the tone of the area. Strip clubs might not reveal themselves to expose odd bumps hidden in the area.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Gillian Bouras
- 20 May 2009
6 Comments
Les Murray describes himself as a poet who is religious
rather than a religious poet, and celebrates a sense of wonder and
mystery. In an increasingly secular age, poetry has a new
function as an alternative or complement to religion.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Carolyn Masel
- 03 April 2009
Vincent Buckley's work evolves from the explicitly religious to the
exploration of experience. But when individual and common experience of love, suffering, or
conflict is treated with such depth of seriousness, the result is much the same.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Charlotte Clutterbuck
- 24 March 2009
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Dawkins would say I am deluded .. in a world unhoused, split between .. those who think they know everything .. those who think they know there is nothing.
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RELIGION
- James McEvoy
- 12 March 2009
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Irish poet Seamus Heaney's spiritual journey could be seen as a casualty of the so-called secularising effect of the '60s and '70s. Heaney describes a shift from faith as external and ritualistic, to something more personal.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Patricia Pak Poy
- 15 August 2008
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How would it feel to be a child soldier in West Africa, forced to rape and kill at the age of 15? And where might you seek redemption amid such horrors?
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