Tag Archives: Mark Jarman

No One Understood the Final Meal

By Robin Bates | Published: September 30, 2023

In this poem, Mark Jarman shows how the Last Supper was just like any other meal–until it wasn’t.

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Transfiguration’s Promise and Its Cost

By Robin Bates | Published: February 27, 2022

In Mark Jarman’s version of the transfiguration, Jesus initially resists the call and it is through his resistance that he is transfigured.

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Walking on Life’s Turbulence

By Robin Bates | Published: July 24, 2021

Mark Jarman has a simple but powerful poem about Jesus walking on the water.

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The Intrusion of an Overwhelming Joy

By Robin Bates | Published: November 27, 2011

Advent is a time for waiting and listening for a message from God. Jarman describes having once experienced it and feeling driven to find it again.

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Hockey, Canada’s Great Romance

By Robin Bates | Published: April 17, 2010

Sidney Crosby        Sports Saturday Jason Blake, a faculty member at the University of Ljubljana English Department, has just written a book on Canadian Hockey Literature (University of Toronto Press, 2010). The book explores five national themes addressed by hockey literature: nationhood, the hockey dream, violence, national identity, and family. I met Jason (who is Canadian) […]

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