Kathleen McPhilemy reviews Michael Horan’s Jesus and the Trojan War, which links the stories of Arthur, Troy, Moses and Christ as myth. She finds it readable but vague on religious belief and lacking philosophical rigour.
Kathleen McPhilemy reviews Peter Abbs’s Against the Flow, which defends the arts and education against postmodern culture and consumerism, though she finds its spirituality ill-defined and its world thin.
Kathleen McPhilemy reviews Lynne Wycherley’s At the Edge of Light, praising its precise, technical language, its preoccupation with light and thresholds, and noting some didactic poems.
Kathleen McPhilemy’s sequence for Iraq, modelled on Tenebrae responsories, mourns the dead and broken people of the war, with images of crosses, morgues and a hillside of tombstones.
