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Haphazard by Starlight

A Poem a Day from Advent to Epiphany

by Janet Morley

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  • Paperback
  • 160 pages
  • Publisher: SPCK Publishing
  • 14 x 21.6 x 0.9 cm

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For poetry lovers seeking a reflective Advent journey.

Guides readers through Advent with poetic reflections from George Herbert, T. S. Eliot & more.

Deepens your faith through insight through poetry and reflection.

Celebrating the season with some of the most luminous lines to colour the English Language, this book of poems will deepen your Advent experience.
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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 (SPCK, 2011), 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.

Haphazard by Starlight and Heart's Time
Heart's TimeHaphazard by Starlight

  • Author

    Janet Morley

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    SPCK Publishing

  • Published

    August 2013

  • Weight

    191g

  • Page Count

    160

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 0.9 cm

  • ISBN

    9780281070626

  • ISBN-10

    0281070628

  • Eden Code

    4087622

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    A Poem a Day from Advent to Epiphany, and as such a beautiful book for any lover of poetry, with a poem for each day from both well and lesser known poets, spanning a range of subjects and opening up a range of insights for the reader. The study of the poem by Morley, for example, grounds the poem in its original context and draws out what it may be about, ending with a singular question for the reader.The poems chosen are beautiful and spiritual, the extrapolation of them clear and interesting. Though it's sold as a poem a day from Advent to Epiphany the book works for any time as the first 17 poems are not overly tied into the Advent to Epiphany journey, however from the 18th entry onwards they definitely are much more religious and tied into the season. I really enjoyed this book, as a good way to enjoy poetry each day and perhaps journey through the Advent season. It worked for me, though I think perhaps the title tells more of the journey than expected.

  • TGBS

    The Good Book Stall

    Average rating of0.0

    A Poem a Day from Advent to Epiphany, and as such a beautiful book for any lover of poetry, with a poem for each day from both well and lesser known poets, spanning a range of subjects and opening up a range of insights for the reader. The study of the poem by Morley, for example, grounds the poem in its original context and draws out what it may be about, ending with a singular question for the reader. The poems chosen are beautiful and spiritual, the extrapolation of them clear and interesting. Though it's sold as a poem a day from Advent to Epiphany the book works for any time as the first 17 poems are not overly tied into the Advent to Epiphany journey, however from the 18th entry onwards they definitely are much more religious and tied into the season. I really enjoyed this book, as a good way to enjoy poetry each day and perhaps journey through the Advent season. It worked for me, though I think perhaps the title tells more of the journey than expected.

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