In Episode 25, Antonia and Kate begin the year's ending and the new liturgical year's beginning by beginning at the end and working backwords. They discuss embodiment in place, geographical and historical map-making, whether Michael Donaghy has presented his dearest with a successful love poem or a clever failure, and land with a leap into the gospel reading for the First Sunday of Advent.
Music: a setting of the Coventry Carol by Sufjan Stevens and Marla Hansen
Florilegium is a programme on Radio Maria which seeks to weave together liturgy, literature and gardening in rambling, hopefully fruitful ways. It is written and presented by Kate Banks and Antonia Shack. You can follow them on SubStack at substack.com/@florilegiumpodcast
About the Creators
Antonia leads a patchwork life with jobs including but not limited to mother, book designer, editor, actor and teacher. She and Kate began discussing poetry, liturgy and gardening at the Willibrord Fellowship reading group in London and are delighted to be continuing these conversations on Radio Maria.
Kate is a teacher of Literature, Philosophy and Theology, with a particularly keen regard for the poet and artist David Jones around whom many of her studies and her teaching-subjects have been based. She also briefly worked as a gardener in London, though she now lives with her little boy on the river Exe in Devon.
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