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14th November 2013: Did R. S

‘Did R.S. Thomas believe in God? The question was put by M Wynn Thomas, a professor of literature at Swansea University, to Barry Morgan, the current Archbishop of Wales, and Rowan Williams, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, at a public discussion of faith in R.S. Thomas’s work. The prompt was a video clip in which John Osmond asks R.S. Thomas whether his rôles as poet and priest conflict. No, he replies, because poetry is metaphor, and religion is also metaphor. He sees no conflict between administering the Christian sacraments, which are metaphor, and administering the metaphor of poetry…

Published in New Welsh Review online, my review of Laboratories of the Spirit, a debate between Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury, and Barry Morgan, Archbishop of Wales, chaired by Prof. M. Wynn Thomas, at Taliesin Arts Centre, Swansea, 1st November 2013. You can read the review in its entirety below.

Did R. S. Thomas Believe in God?

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