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Anglican Poets on Lent, Passiontide and Easter course

“Welcome dear feast”

This course will focus on a selection of poems exploring Lent, Passiontide and Easter written by early modern and modern poets from the Anglican literary tradition. The poets will range from John Donne, Amelia Lanyer and George Herbert to Vassar Miller, RS Thomas, David Scott and Regina Walton, thus bringing together familiar and unfamiliar writers from both the seventeenth and the twentieth/twenty-first centuries, two of the most vibrant periods of Anglican poetry. Each session will begin with a brief lecture introducing the poets but the format of the day will be largely inclusive and interactive, centring on close reading of the poems and discussion of their theological and spiritual implications for this chief season of the Church’s year. The intention of the course leaders is that the poems will serve to resource preachers and worship leaders, as well as a source of spiritual enrichment for individuals at this key time of the Christian year.

About the course leaders
Judith Maltby is Fellow Emerita of Corpus Christi College and Reader Emerita in Church History at the University of Oxford.
Helen Wilcox is Professor Emerita of English Literature at Bangor University, Wales, and an honorary lay canon of Bangor Cathedral.

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Early bird in person ticket #2563 £65

In person early bird discount ticket This is a discounted early bird ticket offering the course for £65 rather than £70. This offer expires 60 days prior to the event and cannot be used in conjunction with any other discount. This course will be held onsite at Sarum College and online. The course fee includes lunch and refreshments for those attending in person.

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Early bird ticket with B&B the night before #2563 £135

This is a discounted early bird ticket offering the course for £135.00 rather than the normal £140.00. This offer expires 60 days prior to the event and cannot be used in conjunction with any other discount. This course will be held onsite at Sarum College. The course fee includes lunch and refreshments. The extra B&B on 17th March 2025 includes accommodation in an en-suite room and breakfast the morning of the course. If the ticket you wish to purchase is showing as not available, please contact me on bclover@sarum.ac.uk, as we may be able to accommodate your request.

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In person ticket #2563 £70

This course will be held onsite at Sarum College. The course fee includes lunch and refreshments.

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In person ticket with B&B the night before #2563 £140

This course will be held onsite at Sarum College. The course fee includes lunch and refreshments. The extra B&B on 17th March 2025 includes accommodation in an en-suite room and breakfast the morning of the course. If the ticket you wish to purchase is showing as not available, please contact me on bclover@sarum.ac.uk, as we may be able to accommodate your request.

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Dates & Times

18 Mar 2025

10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Course code

2563

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This is an onsite day course at Sarum College.

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Visual Artist Claire Reed

The complex and sometimes fractious relationship between contemporary art and religion has intrigued me throughout my art career, informing my direction as an artist. It has led me to work in sacred spaces with their immediate and wider communities, to study an MA in Theology, Imagination and Culture at Sarum College, and recently to become artist–researcher at Leo Baeck College of Jewish scholarship and learning.

My aim is to examine the extent to which this creative approach might generate fruitful inter-religious theological insights within a Jewish and Christian ministry training context.

Sarum College combines an open-minded embrace of the imagination and the arts with a supportive, questioning and diverse community. Crucially for me, the Sarum-Winchester PhD programme is one of the very few UK university programmes to offer a hybrid thesis in art and theology in which the creative process and resulting art output along with a written critical component are presented for examination.

This PhD research is a key part of my development as an artist engaged with theology and inter-religious dialogue.

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The Revd Greg Syler, is Rector of Ascension & St. George’s, Resurrection Parish in the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, DC USA, spent part of his ministry sabbatical at Sarum College in spring 2022.

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Not only did I rest, and rest well in the comfortable care of the Sarum College staff, I experienced very significant renewal and fresh insights.’

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Five years ago, I told my Warden of Readers that I would not be renewing my licence when it expired in 2019, as I thought my faith was becoming too unorthodox for a Church of England licensed lay minister. As someone who knew me well, she challenged me to actively explore what I did still believe. Thus started the journey that ended last August with the dissertation completing my MA in Theology Imagination and Culture (MATIC) at Sarum College.

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The support and encouragement they receive is excellent and has a positive on their on going ministry. This is something the Diocese of Rochester encourages and supports financially in preparation for their clergy preparing for Extended Ministerial Development Leave (Sabbatical).

— Canon Christopher Dench, Diocese of Rochester Director of Formation and Ministry

Anglican Poets on Lent, Passiontide and Easter