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Love Set You Going

Poems of the Heart

  • Hardback
  • 208 pages
  • Publisher: SPCK Publishing
  • 13.7 x 20.4 x 2.1 cm

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An unmissable anthology of touching, humorous, quirky, disconcerting, affirming, erotic and intriguing poems, sensitively interpreted by Janet Morley - renowned poet, critic, theologian and teacher

'Love set you going'.

The opening words of Sylvia Plath's poem for her newborn daughter are true of each one of us. Love is fundamental to our being, our growth, our development and our happiness. Love enables us to make meaning of our lives in the world, and it gives us hope for what lies beyond. It is completely humdrum and ordinary – yet mysterious beyond words. Beginning in the body, it points us to eternity.

Life offers, and asks of us, many different kinds of love, and poets have reflected on this truth with insight and acute observation. As Janet Morley explores love 'up and down the generations', 'grown up love' and love between 'God and the human heart', she reveals what our hearts eventually discern – love has its seasons and ambiguities, its certainties and passions. Love is never simple at all.

W. H. Auden * Rupert Brooke * Charles Causley * John Clare * Gillian Clarke * Samuel Taylor Coleridge * Christine De Luca * Imtiaz Dharker * Emily Dickinson * John Donne * Carol Ann Duffy * Ruth Fainlight * U. A. Fanthorpe * Seamus Heaney * George Herbert * Gerard Manley Hopkins * Ted Hughes * John of the Cross * Jane Kenyon * D. H. Lawrence * Edwin Morgan * Sinéad Morrissey * Sylvia Plath * Christina Rossetti * Siegfried Sassoon * E. J. Scovell * William Shakespeare * R. S. Thomas * Rosemary Tonks * Andrew Waterhouse * Charles Wesley * Rowan Williams * Thomas Wyatt

Love Set You Going and Haphazard by Starlight
Haphazard by StarlightLove Set You Going
  • Author

    Janet Morley

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    SPCK Publishing

  • Published

    September 2019

  • Weight

    334g

  • Page Count

    208

  • Dimensions

    13.7 x 20.4 x 2.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9780281078929

  • ISBN-10

    0281078920

  • Eden Code

    4978539

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.

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