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Confronting death and resurrection: emerging Dantesque poet is ‘a light in the darkness’ of ‘secular, locked-down’ modernity

April 02, 2024

The emergence of the London-based poet Ned Denny has been a light in the darkness of the last four years, during which worldwide circumstances have changed to alarming effect. In 2019, his Unearthly Toys won the Seamus Heaney Prize for a first collection. He followed it with a version of Dante’s Commedia, recasting the original

Catholics invited to make pilgrimage in Dante’s footsteps in anniversary year

November 11, 2021

Ravenna, Italy, Nov 11, 2021 / 04:20 am The poet Dante famously traveled through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise in his masterpiece the “Divine Comedy.” Now, Catholics have a chance to follow in his footsteps — his earthly ones, that is. Dante’s Walk is a 235-mile route that takes pilgrims from the Byzantine splendor of the city

Denny’s divine inspiration

August 05, 2021

Jonathan Gaisman reviews B (After Dante) by Ned Denny

Morning Catholic must-reads: 14/09/17

September 14, 2017

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What Anglicans get right about angels

May 18, 2017

We need to start taking these blessed creatures seriously again

Morning Catholic must-reads: 16/06/16

June 16, 2016

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Morning Catholic must-reads: 21/05/15

May 21, 2015

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Pope Francis suggests Divine Comedy as vital reading for Year of Mercy

May 05, 2015

Dante is 'a prophet of hope' and 'herald of the possibility of redemption', says Pontiff

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