Please NOTE: I attempted a reading of this poem in a later blog (see this link) Did I need a proof of this it would be the winner of the National Poetry Award poem, The Gathering, by Partridge Boswell: The GatheringAbove my meditating head, a record herd of god’s tiny cowsgrazes on the blank page … More A great poet is unique: witness Partridge Boswell.
I need to answer this obliquely in order to avoid any validation of the notion of unique personalities. They do not and cannot exist. The argument might be worth taking up another day but my aim today is to assume that we should and must avoid the tendency in single-issue thinking to invoke moral panic. … More In truth no-one is ‘unique’. The best thing we can do is to avoid turning to the single issues that fuel ‘moral panic’.
As a preacher of sermons, one almost thinks that John Donne was as alive to the need to generate memorable phrases that would outlive knowledge of his work as to teach the religious lessons of human and spiritual concern. Written in 1624, possibly in response to an illness that nearly killed him, the devotional piece … More ‘No-one is an island, entire to itself’, as John Donne might have preached, had he wished to touch the diversity of people.
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