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The following lecture was presented in July 2019 at the Biennial Conference on Catholicism, Literature and the Arts—organized in partnership by the Centre for Catholic Studies, the University of Notre Dame and Ushaw College.

The following is a reading of poems by Maria Apichella, taken from her work entitled entitled “Psalmody”, winner of the Melita Hume Poetry Prize.