Is poetry something that is incomprehensible to you? Our guest on this episode is British poet and writer, Sally Read.  Sally didn’t always “get poetry” and yet poetry had a transformative effect on her.  It helped her to connect in a profound way with her patients when she worked as a psychiatric nurse.  She explains how in her own poetry she attempted to “grasp the interconnectedness of everything”. 

She describes what poetry meant to her as an atheist and now as a believer.  Sally shares her favourite poets with us and suggests the steps to develop a genuine love for poetry. She finishes with a beautiful reading of one of her much-loved poems.

Resources:
-  Sally Read’s website:  https://www.sallyread.net/
-  Night's Bright Darkness: A Modern Conversion Story (Ignatius Press, 2016)
-  Annunciation: A Call to Faith in a Broken World (Ignatius Press, 2019)
-  Dawn of this Hunger, a poetry collection 

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