Brunswick Book of Peace

Since the pen of the poet is mightier than the sword of the warmakers, we wisely turn to writers like Mary Oliver and Wendell berry to restore our dream of lasting peace. Here is an excerpt from Seamus Heaney's The Cure At Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes from which we can drink deeply:

History says: "Don't hope
on this side of the grave."
But then, once in a lifetime
the longed- for tidal wave
of justice can rise up,
and hope and history rhyme.

So hope for a great sea-change,
on the far side of revenge.
Believe that a further shore
is reachable from here.
Believe in miracles
and cures and healing wells.


Gloria Hutchinson, Brunswick