AustLit

'A chapbook of fifteen poems, Kevin Brophy’s Misericordia is part of a multi-form artistic response to the Jubilee of Mercy proclaimed by Pope Francis in 2016. The accompanying DVD records a performance of music, text, Brophy’s poems, and The Faces of Mercy, a tryptych by painter Niké Arrighi Borghese. Michael Campbell’s performance text provides a context for Brophy’s poems by selecting phrases from the Psalms and Pope Francis, the whole set to music by composer George Palmer, and performed by St Mary’s Cathedral Choir, Sydney. The performance is divided into three segments: Despair, Desolation; Pardon, Hope; Mercy, Love.' (Introduction)