Lawrence Morey

Other Voices, Other Rooms

Arts & Literature

“Tim Vivian collects stories from Scripture, mostly from the Gospels, but also from Jewish and Muslim Scriptures, and extends them into the realm of personal and collective imagination. Using the framework of Ignatian contemplation, the poems adopt many voices: the woman taken in adultery, Pilate’s wife, and so become universal. But the themes of the poems, though rooted in Scripture, are very much from our own times and speak to our anxieties, sorrows, and joys.”