The Welsh poet and Anglican priest R.S. Thomas (1913-2000) has been recognized for his profound religious observations thrown into relief by the turbulent events of the twentieth century. Thomas’s poetry is marked by political and spiritual struggle; as David Anderson has explained at Religion and Ethics Newsweekly, his work “is not easily orthodox or pretty.” Anderson writes: Thomas is mostly interested in God’s silence or absence, the deus absconditus or hidden God, and what that means for … [Read more...]