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And Death shall have No Dominion (Dylan Thomas)
This is one of Dylan Thomas’s earliest poems, and one that he loved to speak out loud (loud meaning loud). It’s about what, if anything, is likely to happen to us after we die. There are two Biblical references. One of these gives us the title, and the 1st and 9th lines of each of […]
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Poem in October (Dylan Thomas)
Thomas called this, “the first place poem I’ve written”. The place was Laugharne, on the estuary of the river Taf in Carmarthenshire, where Dylan lived for 4 years in the Boathouse and where, in the graveyard of St Martin’s Church, he and his wife Caitlan are buried. Detailed analyses of Thomas’s poems can differ from […]
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Loaves and Fish
There’s a story in the New Testament about 5,000 people being fed with 5 loaves and 3 fish, and it appears in all four of the Gospels. As it happens, it was reckoned by two of these Gospels to be such a good story, that they each staged a re-run with some tweaks – 4,000 […]
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“Follow your Bliss”
I’ve found myself doing a fair amount of writing in these lockdown days. I’ve always been a ‘word person’. In the maths class at school, I sat myself at the back and perfected the art of being asleep without seeming to be. I like the discipline of writing something in 500 words, give or take. […]
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I was at one time …
I was, at one time, a minister of religion, but I’m not one now. I still study the Bible, however, and try to keep up to date with modern ‘critical’ Biblical scholarship. After I left the ministry, I started to dip my toes in philosophy and modern science, and also took more of an interest […]
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