An atheist’s complaint at the scant room made by the church for his personal commemoration of the dead
An atheist’s complaint at the scant room made by the church for his personal commemoration of the dead
A Hundred Doors
God! I’m lighting candles again, still
The sentimental atheist, family
Names a kind of prayer or poem, my muse
An emblem of medieval pilgrimage gains fresh resonance in a more recent time of plague
Father Pat Brennan’s poem about gossipy parishioners has sparked a wider discussion about quarrels within the church
A collective dash for shelter in the city takes on a spiritual, near-religious power
From an almost whimsical beginning, these verses on wishing to overcome mortality grow lyrical and deeply moving
The moon becomes the witty image of an isolated and contemptuously neglected elderly relation
A sharply satirical attack on unevenly applied 19th-century laws to enforce religious observance still bites today
