A study morning looking at ‘Echoes to the Amen’: Poetry and Prayer, led by Shanti Daffern, PhD candidate in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge.
As we read poems by R. S. Thomas, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and Denise Levertov, and as we tussle with the ideas of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Evelyn Underhill, we will think together about how we might pray with poetry. And how might poems stir up, test and teach our prayer?