Please find slides for the class this week. Audio will be posted soon. Please note also the updates to the itinerary for the poetic Pilgrimage in June/July next year – in the previous post: Find audio for Week 3 here https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/hyhwalfkvde30s75sc8pb/New-Recording-184.m4a?rlkey=ygil8pvtevwwr2k61qylobeyl&st=l8spvif6&dl=0
Category: The Call To Be
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1000 Years of Poetry and the Contemplative Tradition
England 2025: Overview Please join me on this pilgrimage which begins in June/ July 2025. Please find the updated draft itinerary in the document that you can download at the end of this Overview. Please note that pricing for the pilgrimage is still being negotiated and the final details and the place where you can…
Pope Francis’ Words on the Importance of Literature and Poetry in the Modern World.
Please find attached these amazing words from the Pontif on how literature and poetry can be a true source of spiritual liberation. Enjoy!
Class for Week 2
Please find audio for this class and the visual images used. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/k7xzdf8i8s1ndb7t37byx/ALQaph4-eo21Jkl6h_EOFSE?rlkey=0slmnueqund5qhyx91os8njv2&st=o0mjtkw9&dl=0
Poem by Colleen Keating (of the class of Poetry’s Job 2024)
Two Canticles At a cottage by the sea I tackle Francis Webb, curious about his poetry from Cap and Bells. Outside a wild spring ocean’s curled waves tussle on the tide, comb to the edge, like spoonbills probing every squint of sand and wrack. The horizon — is drawn-in, appropriate for this day in this…
Poems and Observations from “Poetry’s Job” The Call to Be November 2024
Please submit your poems or text observations directly to Michael at: mjdgriffith@bigpond.com. Give the email title to your contribution as Poetry’s Job.
Additional Content for The Call to Be August 2024
Space for Participants poems and comments for “The Call to Be” August 2024.
Please send any copy that you would like included to Michael Griffith at mjdgriffith@bigpond.com
Poems submitted after Week 3 of Poetry and Being
Poem and commentary contributed by Andrew Fraser “The core of TS Eliot’s poem Little Gidding, is in my view the line; ‘A condition of complete simplicity’ This ties in with his theme of the ’still point’ running through the complete work , Four Quartets of which Little Gidding is part. When I wrote the Indigenous Prophet, I was imagining all of creation, as…
Presentation Slides for Week 3 Poetry and Being
Please be sure to visit the White Board for these Slides in the post below…….
White Board, Poetry and Being WEek 3
White Board Week 3 Poetry and Being Dear All, Thank you all for being such a wonderful group. It was a joy for me to explore these, some of my favourite, poems with you over the last three weeks. Poetry is a definite support for my own spiritual understanding and a way of connecting me…
Poems from the Call-to-Be group on Poetry and Being Week 2 (September 14th 2022)
Andrew Fraser has submitted another 3 poems based on his responses to class this week. I include the notes he sent me that indicate how the poems arose from the poems we studied and the class interactions. Thank you so much Andrew for your sophisticated responses to the poems and your effort of compiling these…
Presentation Slides for Week 2
White Board for Week 2 Poetry and Being: Discussions on R.S. Thomas, Mary Oliver and T.S. Eliot
WHITE BOARD: POETRY AND BEING WEEK 2 Responses to general introduction: John– wondering whether poetry, like in music, uses pauses to create and capture meaning? Jonathan…. That’s why poetry breaks into lines. There is athe mental pause at end of each line which has a similar function. Michael- also the stanza/verse structure of many poems…
Poems from the Call-to-Be group on Poetry and Being Week 1 (September 7th 2022)
Microsoft Word – Barangaroo and Benelong.docx Barangaroo and BenelongBarangaroo sings sad songs from North centreOf the Grassy Grotto amphitheatre.She fronts and laughs at the White Man’s Phallus, To emasculate Terra Nullius.Benelong wakes from the mist to the EastAnd presides at a grand opera feast.He sings of the Cross raised in 08When World’s Youth saw in…
Week 1& 2 Poetry and Being
Thank you all for your wonderful level of participation in this first week of our exploration. Here are some of the materials we used this week. First you will find the notes from the White Board. Second you will find the presentation itself (for this week and next week). After that you will find a…
Michael Griffith: Home Page- Literature and Life Spring 2025 