Category: Poetry of Grace @ Aquinas

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1000 Years of Poetry and the Contemplative Tradition

by michaelgriffith1 • October 8, 2022 • 0 Comments

England 2023: Overview Please join me on this pilgrimage which begins in July 2023. Find all the details at the following link: 1000 Years of Poetry and the Contemplative Tradition England 2023 The adventure begins in London on the site where Chaucer’s pilgrims set out in 1390. Next comes Canterbury, with its Cathedral, St Augustine’s Abbey,…

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Greetings and farewell from A/Prof Michael Griffith (Literature: Strathfield)

by michaelgriffith1 • June 30, 2022 • 0 Comments

I am retiring after 45 years at ACU. While it certainly sounds a long time, I remember vividly my first days on Castle Hill Campus in 1977 and then the flow of new literature students, through Castle Hill, then Mount Saint Mary and occasionally MacKillop. Every year a wonderful crop of new faces, new enthusiasms!…

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The Dry Salvages- 4 Quartets – Session 4

by michaelgriffith1 • November 27, 2019 • 0 Comments

Thank you all for being such wonderful participants in our collaborative exploration of T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets. We are all now a little wiser and come to this astonishing group of poems with fresh eyes. T.S. Eliot is a poet who brings the spiritual and poetic search for truth a little closer to us all. Despite…

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The Poetry of Grace Contemplative Experience IV: Part 4

by michaelgriffith1 • November 30, 2018 • 0 Comments

In today’s last session we turned first to exploring the ways in which William Blake explores the conditions that create GRACE. In his Songs of Innocence and Experience he has two songs that are about Nurses. In Nurse’s Song in Songs of Innocence he presents the Nurse in a state in which “her heart is at…

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The Poetry of Grace IV: Contemplative Experience Part 3

by michaelgriffith1 • November 21, 2018 • 0 Comments

In this week’s session we looked first at Les Murray’s “The Buladelah-Taree Holiday Song Cycle“. If you click on the title you can read the whole poem right here! We explored the ways in which Les’ poem builds on the ” ‘WONGURI‐’MANDƷIKAI SONG CYCLE OF THE MOON‐BONE“ which we explored in last week’s session. You can…

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The Poetry of Grace IV: Contemplative Experience Part 2

by michaelgriffith1 • November 16, 2018 • 5 Comments

This week we first turned our attention to Judith Beveridge’s wonderful poem “Flying Foxes, Wingham Brush”. In this poem she reveals her capacity to enter into the lives of these amazing creatures, giving them her full attention, drawing us in to the experience of their wondrous beings! Enjoy this audio lecture which moves at the…

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The Poetry of Grace IV: Contemplative Experience Part 1

by michaelgriffith1 • November 6, 2018 • 1 Comment

This is the fourth seminar series in a group titled The Poetry of Grace held at the Aquinas Academy in Sydney. Previous seminars have explored the poetry of Austrian Rainer Maria Rilke and Australian Francis Webb (these can be accessed from this WordPress site- just click on the Poetry of Grace link above). This 2018 seminar…