Tag: Christianity

On the first day of Christmas, they hauled you from me with the forceps while a crimson Santa blinked outside and made the rain new blood. The second day, I washed with frankincense, fed you thin gold, summoned by the high star of your cry. The third day, milk came swaddling-pale, shepherd’s flock white… Helen […]
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Poem to His Line Manager

Jonathan Edwards

PUBLISHED ON: 30/11/17

CATEGORY: Poetry

For I pity your children. For the sight of your car outside the office at eight on a Tuesday morning makes me feel ill. For I walk past a golf shop on …

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My Oxford

Catherine Haines

PUBLISHED ON: 01/09/17

CATEGORY: Blog

‘I’ll let you know.’ ‘Cath?’ ‘Yes?’ ‘Why don’t you eat something?’ Most days, someone said, Why don’t you eat, as though I were making a choice to ref …

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Dress Rehearsal

Charlie Bird

PUBLISHED ON: 01/09/17

CATEGORY: Poetry

The stage is full of angels, innkeepers, reindeer. Mary, heavy with cushion, strops at Joseph, who laughs at shepherds farting, who blame the sheep fr …

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Atheist

John Barnie

PUBLISHED ON: 25/07/17

CATEGORY: Blog

There is still something disreputable about the word ‘Atheist’ which is why I rarely use it with reference to myself – even though I have been one for …

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Four Poems from Judas

Damian Walford Davies

PUBLISHED ON: 20/05/14

CATEGORY: Poetry

In the forthcoming collection from Seren, Judas, from which these poems are excerpted, a shattered Judas Iscariot – that byword for betrayal – tells h …

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Dandelion by Patrick Jones

Rob Mimpriss

PUBLISHED ON: 01/10/13

CATEGORY: Reviews

  Patrick Jones is a serious writer of ambitious themes. His work does not bear such themes lightly. I tweeted about his play, Dandelion, perform …

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Celebrating the millennium

PUBLISHED ON: 29/12/11

CATEGORY: Editorial

A casual visitor from Mars could be forgiven for thinking that Wales is celebrating the second millennium of rugby football, rather than Christianity. …

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