Rowan Williams Bibliography : Poetry

B. Poetry and words for musical settings

1972

Gemini Poets. Edited by Williams. Cambridge: Gemini Press, 1972.
Includes Poems by Williams: Lazarus; Praying 1, 2 & 3; Object in a Folk-Museum; Counterpoint; Mass of Maundy Thursday; Song for Advent.

1974

Gemini Twin. Edited by Williams. Oxford: Gemini Press, 1974. [Anthology].

1994

After Silent Centuries. Oxford: Perpetua, 1994.
All poems subsequently included in The Poems of Rowan Williams (2002).

1997

‘Penrhys; Curtains for Bosnia’. Image, no. 16 (1997): 62–64.

2001

Remembering Jerusalem. Oxford: Perpetua, 2001.

2002

The Poems of Rowan Williams. Oxford: Perpetua, 2002. Republished Manchester: Carcanet, 2014. [Includes all poems published in After Silent Centuries (1994) and Remembering Jerusalem (2001) plus some more recent poems.]. .

‘Windsor Road Chapel’. The Guardian, 27 Jul 2002, from Remembering Jerusalem.

2003

Advent Calendar Composed by Philip Ledger for Unaccompanied Mixed Voices. Words by Williams. Matfield: Encore Publications, C2003.

I Saw Him Standing. Composed by Taril O’Regan. with words by Williams from the Welsh of Ann Griffiths. New Horizons, 2003.

2004

‘Advent Calendar’, The Guardian, 24 Dec 2005: 18.

2006

‘Namugongo: Martyrs’ Memorial’. [Poem] Meanjin 65, no. 4 (2006): 183.

2008

Headwaters. Oxford: Perpetua, 2008. Russian translation: Istoki. Translated by Nikolaj M Palʹcev. Moskva: Centr Knigi Rudomino, 2011.

Without Loss. Composed by Brian Inglis. Words by Williams. Anthem for Mixed Voices. Chipping Norton: Composers Edition, 2008.

2012

Advent Anthem. Composed by Michael Berkeley. Words by Williams. Anthem for Mixed Voices with Organ. Oxford Contemporary Repertoire. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.

‘Advent Calendar.’ In December: Four Seasonal Settings for SATB Chorus (a Cappella), composed by Stephen Hough. London: Josef Weinberger, [2012].

‘Roadside / Viaticum’. [Poem] The Poetry Ireland Review 102 (2012): 43; and Theology 117, no. 1 (Jan 2014): 78. doi:10.1177/0040571X13511044.

2013

Advent Anthem. Vocal Score Composed by Michael Berkeley. Words by Williams. Commissioned for Liverpool Cathedral in Advent 2010. Oxford Contemporary Repertoire. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.

‘Caldey’. Image: Art, Faith, Mystery, no. 80 (Winter 2013/Spring 2014): 117–18.

First the Sun, Then the Shadow. Vocal Score Composed by Michael Berkeley. Words by Williams. Commissioned by Durham Cathedral Choir Association. Oxford: New Horizons, 2013.

2014

‘Carn Ingli’. Pn Review 40, no. 5 (May/Jun 2014): 14–15.

The Other Mountain. [Poetry] Manchester: Carcanet, 2014.

‘Nagasaki: Midori’s Rosary’. New Statesman 143, no. 5195 (31 Jan 2014): 53.

‘Shell Casing’. PN Review 40, no. 5 (May/Jun 2014): 15.

‘Waters of Babylon’. PN Review 40, no. 5 (May/Jun 2014): 15.

‘Yellow Star: for Mother Maria Skobtsova [Poem]’. Theology 117, no. 1 (Jan 2014): 79. doi:10.1177/0040571X13511044a.

2016

‘Alderley: for Alan Garner’: A New Poem’. New Statesman 145, no. 5315 (9 May 2016): 41.

‘I Saw Him Standing’. Vocal Score Composed by Philip Moore, Composer. with Words by Williams from the Welsh of Ann Griffiths. London: Boosey & Hawkes, 2015.

2017

‘One by One, the Marks Join Up.’ [Poem] in ‘Reading for the World’, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Beverley Naidoo, and Williams. The Guardian (27 Jan 2009): 2.

‘Sorrows of the Somme’. Lyrics for an orchestral and choral piece by Brian Hughes. Premiere, Hoddinott Hallat, Wales, 21 Oct 2017.

2020

‘Easter Sunday 2020: Poetry by Rowan Williams’. Standpoint (May-Jun 2020). https://standpointmag.co.uk/issues/may-june-2020/easter-sunday-2020/.