John Kersey - Music and Culture

Speech delivered at the Traditional Britain Conference to the Traditional Britain Group by Professor John Kersey on 18th October 2014.

Andrew Thickett - The Sussurating Fire

Pushkin was sure,
Piotr would pour,
The recusant sky inside his sacred cup:
Tatiana's swirling thunder-water,
Sent Onegin asunder:
His Eros observing
Her deliquescent love,
Like a silent dome,
Surrounded by a theophany of ghosts.

Beneath the surface,
Our visible metaphysic -
Rises, spine-wise,
To reveal its denouement:
Beauty is a form
Of invisible fire.
Once a life has been lived twice
The fabulist will find a way
to distance his scrupulosity from his lyre.