Christianity
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We spent most of today setting up the illuminate exhibition I plugged in the previous post. Tiring work, but it’s looking good. There are still a couple of things to install before tomorrow’s opening, but I think everyone involved is very pleased with how it looks and hangs together.
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This Christmas exhibition will include three poems of mine presented as a triptych. Readers of Tonguefire will be familiar with two of them–“His Wading Light” and “A Voice is Heard in Ramah”–but the third, which is called “Down Darkness Wide”, is new and takes a different view of the story. Interestingly, although the word triptych
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I must attend more live music. No matter how good a recording, it simply can’t compare to hearing the resonances shimmer away into the rafters of the concert hall. And shimmer they did last night in the hands of the pianist Benjamin Kobler, the horn player William Purvis and the NJO Summer Academy, under Reinbert
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Tomorrow evening, I’m off to an Edinburgh International Festival performance of Olivier Messiaen‘s enormous orchestral piece Des Canyons aux Étoiles, so it seems appropriate to inaugurate a projected series of occasional blog entries on the writers, musicians and artists who most invigorate me with a few words about Messiaen. Over the past few years, I’ve
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Mars Hill, the blog of fellow Subway member Paul Burgin has a link to and post about Tonguefire. The main focus of Paul’s blog is political, so I’ve linked to it under “less literary blogs”. Under “Theoblogical/Emergent”, I’ve also added a link to Paul Thomson’s wee beautiful pict blog. Paul’s theological/ecclesiological musings are consistently stimulating,
Amy Jo Philip 