Essays – Page 4 – The Consolations of Writing

The Meaning of Spring

In honour of Melbourne’s indecisive weather and the potential end of the souther winter, here is an essay I have written about the poetic implications of spring. The Meaning of Spring

The Priest Who Chuckled in Poetry

This week, Melbourne priest, poet and teacher Father Peter Steele SJ passed away, at age 72, from cancer. Peter taught me poetry in my final year of Literature at the University of Melbourne, and had such a significant influence on me that I have had to write something in honour of him here. Click onContinue reading “The Priest Who Chuckled in Poetry”

Farewell, Ray’s Summer

(Reblogged from Ideas From the North) On Tuesday of the week just passed, Ray Bradbury died at age 91. Being one of my favourite authors and one of the most significant writers of the last century, I feel that he deserves something to be said about him. Much has, I’m sure, been said already, theContinue reading “Farewell, Ray’s Summer”

A Year of Writing Liturgically: a project in the making

A few years ago, I found, selling for the grand price of about $1.00, a tattered old copy of a book by Christina Rossetti called Time Flies: A Reading Diary. I was doing my Honours thesis that year on Victorian literature and had, as a result, discovered the Rossetti family. Dante Gabriel had frightened me,Continue reading “A Year of Writing Liturgically: a project in the making”