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…
Greetings and farewell from A/Prof Michael Griffith (Literature: Strathfield)
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!…
Francis Webb- Aquinas Academy- Session 4
Today’s Session covered Francis Webb’s most well known poem (and his own favourite) “Five Days Old” with its celebration of the way a young child can awaken an experience of transformation in an adult. We then turned to Webb’s exploration of the creative power of St Francis of Assisi, the sequence of poems The Canticle. This…
Michael Griffith: Home Page- Literature and Life Spring 2025 