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In the Bleak Midwinter

Advent and Christmas with Christina Rossetti

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  • Paperback
  • 144 pages
  • Publisher: Hymns Ancient & Modern
  • 14 x 21.6 x 1.3 cm

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An Advent guide for poetry readers

Rachel Mann looks at the poems of Christina Rossetti

A poetic journey into the heart of winter and Christmas

Drawing on the poems of Christina Rossetti, this advent devotional from Rachel Mann takes you on a poetic journey to the heart of winter and Advent.
Anna Hockley

Anna Hockley

Eden Christian Books Specialist

In the Bleak Midwinter explores the power of Advent and the joy of Christmas through the poetry of Christina Rossetti.

Best known for her poems-turned-carols In the Bleak Midwinter and Love Came Down at Christmas, Rossetti's rich and wondrous faith provides an inspiring seasonal companion.

For each day from Advent Sunday to the Epiphany, Rachel Mann selects a poem and reflects on it, drawing on Rossetti's many other writings including her devotional journals and commentary on biblical narratives.

At a time when commercial pressures are at their most intense, this volume aims to lead readers to an encounter with God's time and space, to find our true identity beyond all that would limit and diminish our humanity.

In the Bleak Midwinter and The Meaning Is In The Waiting
The Meaning Is In The WaitingIn the Bleak Midwinter
  • Author

    Rachel Mann

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Hymns Ancient & Modern

  • Published

    July 2019

  • Weight

    268g

  • Page Count

    144

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 1.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9781786221629

  • ISBN-10

    1786221624

  • Eden Code

    4979342

Rachel Mann is a published poet and author with a PhD on the poetry of Christina Rossetti. She is an Anglican priest in Manchester, teaches at the Manchester School of writing and was poet in residence at Manchester Cathedral.

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    Anne O'Connor

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    This book resonated for me in a very special way. My daughter Annie gave it to me last Christmas but, being a guided meditation for the season of Advent, I only started reading it this December. Annie was a scripture scholar, teacher and evangelist who died of natural causes in June 2020 aged only 41. She knew I enjoyed poetry and theological reflection so this seemed an ideal gift. Reading the book day by day, it spoke to me so much of Annie: her early death, her work, her ethos, her loving service to others, her deep faith. Opening the introductory section on 'how to use this book', the following words seemed apt: "on the Sunday before Advent ... we wait on the brink - of the new liturgical year, of the New Creation, of the End Of All Things ... it is a time of endings and a time of beginnings," p. xxiii Rachel Mann's skilful unpacking of Christina Rossetti's poems helped me see how those of us who grieve can rejoice in a life well lived. Just as the seasons are cyclical and ever-changing, so it is with the Church's year and, indeed, with life. Mann writes: 'we must be alert to the way Christ's central narrative flows and interleaves: Nativity gestures towards Passion, death towards life, and eternity is woven into the present,' p.14. This concept helped me to see Annie's death as part of a much greater picture, albeit a picture that is hard to fully comprehend in the context of sudden and painful loss. After a few days' study I bought a second copy to send to one of Annie's close friends. She too found it immensely helpful.

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