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James Smoker

James Smoker (Associate Editor) is a doctoral student with the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts at St Andrews. His project focuses on imagination, faith, doubt, and approaching the divine in the writing of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834). When he is not dissertation writing, James is the Registrar at Regent College in Vancouver, Canada. He now lives in Vancouver with his wife, Siobhan, and their three wonderful children.

Articles, Literature20/05/2022<20/05/2022

The Audacious Prayer of The Handmaid’s Tale

James Smoker argues that The Handmaid’s Tale is not “detrimental to Christian values” but an important challenge to corrupted religious power, in the next installment…

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Articles04/02/2022<16/03/2022

Olivia Rodrigo, Bo Burnham, and the Yearning of the Self-Conscious Imagination

For the launch of our series Binge-worthy? James Smoker looks at the ‘self-conscious imagination’ through the work of Olivia Rodrigo, Bo Burnham and Coleridge….

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Articles, Poetry, Reviews24/04/2020<24/04/2020

Review: Rattelle and Collister, eds.: The Slumbering Host

Daniel Rattelle and Clinton Collister, eds. The Slumbering Host. Little Gidding Press, 2019, 105 pp. £7.63 (paperback). The world is not as it once…

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