Fife Pilgrim Way: A Sequence (9 Ceres/St Andrews) – Donald MacEwan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Title:

Fife Pilgrim Way: a Sequence

 

Description:

In the summer of 2020, I walked the Fife Pilgrim Way from Culross to St Andrews with friends.  This sequence of poems with photographs explores places and incidents along the way, wondering as we wandered if and how the divine was and is encountered in the presences and absences, the dead and the living, in pilgrims then and now.  It wonders if relics can rekindle grace, an inbreaking or perhaps rather, a recognising.

 

Bio:

Donald MacEwan has spent his life listening to 80s indie, playing golf indifferently, travelling around the world hopefully, teaching English ineffectually, reading pleasurably, and ministering cheerfully.  He has been Chaplain to the University of St Andrews for ten years.   

Author

  • Karen is finishing a PhD program in the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts after careers in corporate management, consulting, and pastoral and theatre ministry. She explores theological and theatrical contexts of ’empty space’ and general human disposition toward it, with emphasis on improvisation (specifically Playback Theatre) and Holy Saturday. Since 2017, Karen has led or advised ITIA’s Transept group, a postgraduate-led group of multidisciplinary practicing artists. Karen was an editor for Transpositions from 2017 to 2022. As Editor-in-Chief, she fostered a closer partnership between Transpositions and Transept, hosted the In/break exhibition on the Transpositions site, and introduced regular series into the publishing schedule.