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September 11,
2001
Poems
in the shadow of the terror attacks.
The
original September 11, 2001 poem was written to be
read
to our congregation at St John's
Church,
West Ealing, London,
on the Sunday following 9/11. The following day, prompted by a
remark from
a friend who had read it to a Sikh family, I made a shorter version
comprising
just the last two sections, to be more accessible to people outside the
church.
I emailed it to various friends, and it circulated from there.
The
complete version appeared
in Third
Way
in November 2001 and has been published widely in whole or
part in print
and on the Web. A short passage was incorporated into the Archbishop of
Canterbury’s
talk at the memorial
service for British victims in Westminster
Abbey.
An updated version
produced for the tenth anniversary was read
at St John's
on September 11, 2011.
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September
11, 2001 (short version)
September
11, 2001 (complete
version)
Precautions
Promises
Osama
Vengeance
September
11, 2001 (tenth
anniversary complete version)
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