Crossing The Bar: An Evening of music and words with poet Jay Hulme

Crossing The Bar: An Evening of music and words

Join members of the St Martin’s Choral Scholars and the Trinity Church, New York Choral Scholars, together with poet Jay Hulme, for an evening of music and poetry exploring themes of the saints and pilgrimage.

The event will last approximately one hour with no interval. Admission is free and all are welcome.

Often to be found high on a crumbling spiral staircase, or alone on a long walk, Jay Hulme is (so the biographies often say) an award winning transgender poet, theologian, speaker, and educator. With a special interest in queer rights, nature, and theology, Jay’s work engages particularly with ideas of faith, place, and identity. Here there are no boundaries, as he intertwines the urban and pastoral; the sacred and mundane; the likely and the impossible.

A firm believer in childlike wonder, Jay’s books for children often combine mythical creatures and magical thinking with clear lessons on love, care, and self-belief. The lessons offered in his books for adults are often the same, albeit with fewer dragons. At the heart of all of Jay’s work is a vision of a world full of beauty and possibility, offered up to us all through strange lichenous poems full of wilderness, mysticism, and love.