Haphazard by Starlight: A Poem a Day from Advent to Epiphany - Couverture souple

Morley, Janet

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0281070628 ISBN 13 : 9780281070626

Editeur : SPCK Publishing, 2013

Synopsis

Advent is celebrated when the year is becoming darker and colder, moving into the death and dormancy of winter.

Before we can greet the coming of the light, we need to engage with some themes that are challenging and occasionally fearful. Like the Magi who travelled a long distance to search out and adore the infant Jesus, and who took some wrong turns on the way, we too have a journey to undertake before we find that we have

'Walked haphazard by starlight straight
Into the kingdom of heaven.'
U. A. Fanthorpe, BC:AD

Haphazard by Starlight is a companion volume to Janet Morley's bestselling Lent book, The Heart's Time, which delighted readers with its thoughtfully chosen selection of poems and its biblically sensitive commentaries.

Here, the reader is given an opportunity to engage in a pilgrimage of the heart, through Advent and Christmas to the feast of the Epiphany. Each day - from 1 December to 6 January - offers a poem (sometimes explicitly Christian, often not) and an accessible commentary that is both critically informed and devotional in intent.

The poets represented include Rowan Williams, Elizabeth Jennings, Edwin Muir, Philip Larkin, Jane Kenyon, Gillian Clarke, George Herbert, T. S. Eliot, Sylvia Plath, Emily Dickinson, Waldo Williams, P. J. Kavanagh, Ruth Fainlight, William Blake and many more.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Janet Morley is a freelance writer, speaker and workshop leader. She has worked for Christian Aid and for the Methodist Church, and is the author of several books of prayers and poems, including All Desires Known, Bread of Tomorrow, The Heart's Times, Haphazard by Starlight and Our Last Awakening.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: SPCK Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0281070628
• ISBN 13: 9780281070626
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 160
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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