three hares

Educated in a monastery, poet, author and journalist P J Kavanagh ’s early thoughts of becoming a monk were thwarted because he 'liked ...

I have no idea of the religious adherence of this week’s contemporary American Pulitzer Prize winning poet, Mary Oliver (b. 1935), but the ...

After an abortive career in what we would now call PR, and a short time as an MP, Herbert (1593-1632) left the heady world of politics for ...

The songs of U2 have reached millions of people, and Bono’s own faith permeates much that he writes. Here in ‘Miracle Drug’ he recalls a sc...

Hopkins (1844-1889), an Anglican convert to Roman Catholicism, wrestled with his sexuality, depression and physical ill-health, and burnt a...

William Blake (1757-1927) was a self-taught poet and artist, a revolutionary, visionary and eccentric whose work was largely ignored in his...

Wonderful pleasure to come across these Shaggy Parasols on campus. They made a fine couple of lunches... Best cooked with butter (beware: s...