New Quaker anthology launched

An anthology of Quaker poetry has been launched

An anthology of poetry by Quakers, the first published in Britain since 1896, has just been released. A speaking silence: Quaker poets of today, edited by RV Bailey and Stevie Krayer, was launched with an event at the Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre. They said: ‘We did not set out to create a volume of “sacred verse” – Quakerism and poetry both seek the holy in the everyday.’

Rowan Williams, the former archbishop of Canterbury, commented: ‘All good poetry is a way of negotiating the frontier between the print and the margin – between what is and isn’t being said, or what can and can’t be said. It’s no surprise that these poems from writers associated with the [Religious] Society of Friends show so clearly where poetry belongs, since the Society helps so many to recognize that all-important frontier’ (see ‘A speaking silence’).

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