Saturday, March 31, 2018

For Easter?

In 1976 the British publication Gay News published James Kirkup's "The Love that Dares to Speak its Name". Gay News was successfully prosecuted and the poem banned as "blasphemous libel", under a statute enacted in 1697. I don't much admire blasphemy myself, or the poem, but it is certainly remarkable, and puts a new spin on "resurrection".

1 comment:

DCSteve1441 said...

Thanks for sharing this poem, John. I must confess that it makes me uncomfortable--yet, as you rightly note, its craftsmanship is remarkable.

Cheers, Steve