Still fresh a century on, this is a very neat dramatisation of the clash between religion’s commands and human instinct As I was lying in my bed I heard the church-bell ring; Before one solemn word ...

About ten years ago, I returned to church after a long hiatus. What drove me back to church was not a recovery of earlier beliefs or listeners. Poetry was in the hymns and in the simple words people ...

A church bell ringer is ready to cause a ding dong in poetry circles when he releases his verses about his love for the county town. Michael Carding, who is tower captain at Holy Trinity Church in ...