The author reflects on their childhood experiences in church and how it shaped their thinking, speech, and writing. The resonant and musical language used in church services continues to attract them, even in poetry that may be difficult to understand.
On Fridays I went to the Church Lads’ Brigade, and I have to say that it’s still a source of pain to me that I never got to play the big bass drum. I tried choir practice a couple of times but Mr Strickland told me to stand at the back so I decided that the life of a chorister wasn’t for me.
There would be hymns at those church services, of course, and ones I remember most are the ones that celebrated the meeting of lyrics and tune in a way that meant they became something more than the sum of their parts. Hills of the North, Rejoice was, and still is, one of my favourites, particularly the line “shores of the utmost West” in one of the later verses.
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