FLORILEGIUM - 12. Song

In episode 12 Kate and Antonia discuss Louise Gluck’s poem ‘Song’ with questions like: is time it fixed or malleable? are the things that nature makes better than those that humans make? They then attempt to tell you about the specificity of particular grasses using only words. The reading is from the feast of the Ascension (Ephesians 1: 17-23). Music: ‘Who knows where the time goes’ sung by Fairport Convention. 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. 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.