three hares

Some ask the world and are diminished in the receiving of it. You gave me only this small pool that the more I drink from, the more overflow...

The final in our series of R S Thomas poems over Easter is ‘The Kingdom’. Here he holds over the conclusion of each sentence deliberately di...

The second in the series of RS Thomas poems over Easter is ‘Aftermath’. Thomas often alights on the image of ‘the machine’ as a malevolent d...

For the next four weeks of the Easter break I’m using for the chaplaincy newsletter some poems by RS Thomas , an old curmudgeon of a Welsh p...

Just been to see The Page Turner ( La Tourneuse de Pages ). Precise, cold, revenge served as nouvelle cuisine. A perfect study of 'an e...

Leafing through my old Bible I came across a quote I had written across the first page as a kind of warning. It still resonates with me. I c...

I've heard rumours about Terry Eagleton's review of Dawkins' latest work, but it proved even funnier than I'd expected. Rea...