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Poetry

Home » What’s New » Poetry

Welcome to the poetry hub.

Here you will find all the poetry written by our poet-in-residence, Revd Lucy Berry.

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Living Lent

Lucy has produced a series of poems in response to JPIT’s Living Lent campaign. You can find there here:

Living Lent Poetry

Welcoming Environment

Lucy’s most recent series of poems explore what it means to create a welcoming environment for refugees and asylum seekers, in response to hostility.

Welcoming Environment Poetry

Remembrance 2018

You can find poems Lucy has written to mark Remembrance Sunday 2018 here.

Remembrance 2018

Photos of My Son

This poem was commissioned for National Poetry Day, 2018.

Photos of my son

Broke TV

JPIT Poet-in-Residence, Rev. Lucy Berry, reflects on the increasing gap between poverty and luxury. In a time where we are reflecting on not having enough, the poem ‘Broke TV’ may be a helpful resource to encourage your thoughts.

 

Ideas, like doves and The Yearning and the Fury

These poem were written by Lucy for our 2018 conference, Brave New World.

Read the poems

Some Kinds of Spitting

This was written by Lucy to support our hostile environment campaign.

Some kinds of spitting

An Empire and a Village

This poem is Lucy’s launch poem, written to begin her residency with JPIT.

An empire and a village

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