About the Author

Rowan Williams was born in 1950. He was the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury (2002-2012). He spent much of his earlier career as an academic at the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford successively. Williams stood down as Archbishop of Canterbury on 31 December 2012 and became Master of Magdalene College at Cambridge University in January 2013. Carcanet reissued The Poems of Rowan Williams in April 2014.

Reviews

'The handful of truly successful poems here marry [Williams'] terseprecision with an unwavering search for the truth, whatever it is, however elusive it might be' - 'While the dark melts'' Times Literary Supplement 18.12.2015