In 2006 I set Kathleen Raine’s poem Amo Ergo Sum forSarah Connolly, who performed it at the CheltenhamFestival. I returned many times to her poems, with theirecstatic spirituality and mysticism, and when the BBCSingers commissioned me to write a set of choruses Iwas glad to continue my exploration of her uniquepoetic world. Both ‘Let in the wind, Let in the rain’ andSpell of Creation have an innate musicality with theirirregular repetition patterns, beautiful and spellbindingin themselves, but also lending themselves to musicalsetting. Richard Blackford
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