‘About Suffering They Were Never Wrong’
Just before the dawn of the bloodiest century, Mark Twain conducted ‘scientific experiments’ in the London Zoological Gardens in which he contrasted the characteristics…
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Review: The Poetics of Evil
Philip Tallon, The Poetics of Evil: Toward an Aesthetic Theodicy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. xx + 252 pp., £52.00/$84.00 With refreshingly lucid prose…
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Surviving the Sahara: On Being Bored
In his 1989 address to the graduating class of Dartmouth College the Russian poet Joseph Brodsky decided to forego the platitudes that comprise such…
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The Orthodoxy of Leaves of Grass: The Imaginative Visions of G.K. Chesterton and Walt Whitman in Dialogue
Walt Whitman is not likely to appear on anyone’s list of great Christian poets. And with reason. From the first publication of Leaves of…
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Who is to Blame for the Post-Truth Era? I am
In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that…
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Earthed To The Unearthly: Two New Poems
Editor’s Note: Transpositions is delighted to offer two unpublished sonnets by our friend and supporter, the poet and author, Malcolm Guite, who has just…
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Poetry: The Grammar of Becoming
The Grammar of Becoming Alone – I become: I (am) Only as I am You to another. I am not until You…
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