Does it help to be religious?

If you want to be a poet in a declining literary culture, that is.

As it’s both Holy Week and Passover this week, and I have a high temperature today, I thought rather than bash something out in my feverish state I’d send round this piece which I’ve been working on for a while. This is a more “think-y” piece than usual and is uncharacteristically free of any close reading. Tomorrow morning, though, Hilary at The Friday Poem will be p…