Obliqueness and Extravagance: A Conversation with Rowan Williams and Shane McCrae
By Interview Issue 115
If poetry has nothing else to say, it says this: this world is much more peculiar than you imagine.
Read MoreWhat You See Is You: Rowan Williams and the Art that Surrenders
By Editorial Statement Issue 113
The microcosmic richness of human identity is a reflection of the God who not only made us but sees us, knows us, and speaks to us. Our being addressed by the divine is an infinite well for human possibility.
Read MoreCaldey
By Poetry Issue 80
The bay’s mouth swells, sucking the gale and spit into stone lungs, laying the ground for what the island tells, hoarsely: before the boats arrive, after the shops shut. Beach Sand shuffles amiably, like familiar words stroking and nosing one another, melismatic chant that slips and pours so quickly that you never see the razor…
Read MoreA Conversation with Rowan Williams
By Interview Issue 80
Rowan Douglas Williams was born in Swansea, south Wales, in 1950, into a Welsh-speaking family, and was educated at Dynevor School in Swansea and Christ’s College, Cambridge, where he studied theology. After two years as a lecturer at the College of the Resurrection, near Leeds, he was ordained deacon in Ely Cathedral before returning to…
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