A visit during the International Festival adds another dimension: a glimpse of an ancient realm's first steps towards engaging with a more complicated world.
These songs, with titles such as Yea Heavy And a Bottle of Bread, Tiny Montgomery and Crash on the Levee (Down in the Flood) seemed to have been mined direct from some ancient realm of poesy, so rich was the wordplay and many-humoured the worldview.
Somewhere in a world full of advanced technology that we write about regularly here on TechCrunch, there exists an ancient realm where mainframe computers are still running programs written in COBOL.
The ruins of the city of Pinara date back at least 2,500 years to the ancient realm of Lycia in what is now southwest Turkey.
I am also not excusing far right wing factions in Israel for invoking biblical chapters like Numbers 31 and 33 as some kind of divine carte blanche for holding the entire modern state, with all its pluralistic promise, hostage to an apocalyptic vision of totally restoring King David's ancient realm.
Grant that our King may make this ancient land A Realm of brothers, working mind and hand To make the Life of Man a fairer thing: God, grant this living glory to the King.
The final poem, A Prayer for the King's Majesty, also focuses on George VI's coronation in May 1937, and sees the poet asking: "Grant that our King may make this ancient land / A Realm of brothers, working mind and hand / To make the Life of Man a fairer thing: / God, grant this living glory to the King".
It opens in a seductively ancient Chinese realm, with a lavish harp flourish and suavely sliding strings.
"I'm interested in how an object can bring the unfathomably large or ancient into the realm of the intimate and familiar, creating tactile connections with that which is vast, distant, or ineffable," Church tells The Creators Project.
But instead of inhabiting some far-off realm of ancient myth, his ogres, ghouls and goblins migrated to 20th-century America: They stroll in Central Park, lurk along the highway and live down the block.
