In the June issue I mentioned that David Chapman, our Editor, had been reading Dylan Thomas's poem "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night". Pam Wilkinson has written in to say, "I'm a big fan of DT but I have problems with that poem!" I do too: in the poem, Dylan...
Amos prophesied in the middle of the 8th century BCE. A hundred and fifty years before him, according to the Hebrew Bible, the death of Solomon had precipitated the division of Israel into a northern kingdom and a southern kingdom known as Judah. Judah's capital was...
Featuring poems by Tom Hall, Rupert Brookes, Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan, Arundathi Subramaniam and Dylan Thomas.
Five and a half hours at Heston West service station
is not, I suspect, everyone’s idea of fun;
Some poets use tides as an image for that which is irresistible.
Alfred Lord Tennyson used the tides as an image for the irresistibility of death in Crossing the Bar (1889). He hoped for calmness in his last moments: “such a tide as moving seems asleep, too full for sound and foam”.
James Priestman reviews the first Festival of Biblical Literature In 2017, Evangelical Christians in the United States of America proposed that Isaiah’s description of the emperor Cyrus, who allowed the people of Judah to rebuild the temple in Jerusalem, should be...
General Editor: David Chapman My undergraduate degree was in physics, and I’ve sometimes said that if you scratch me, you’ll still find a physicist in there somewhere. My first job was as an electronics design engineer working in the telecommunications industry, but...