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Buying for a school or church? Upgrade to a FREE Eden Advance AccountA beautiful Lent book for 2022
Richard Harries introduces you to poems containing spiritual truths
Discover new expressions of faith this Lent
Anna Hockley
Eden Christian Books Specialist
From Maya Angelou and W. H. Auden to Phyllis Wheatley and Walt Whitman, Hearing God in Poetry invites you to take a closer look at fifty great poems by some of the finest poets in the English language. Some are well known, some deserve to be better known, but all say something distinctive that will lift your spirit.
This beautiful Lent book for 2022 offers six poems for every week from Ash Wednesday, leading up to Holy Week, with ten poems specially chosen for Easter. A short reflection from Richard Harries accompanies each poet and the poem, drawing out their spiritual insights and how they communicate God’s presence.
Hearing God in Poetry is an ideal Lent book for 2022 for poetry lovers and anyone interested in how some of the world’s finest poets have expressed faith in their work. This book of daily readings will introduce you to some wonderful poetry for Lent and Easter, and give you a deeper understanding and appreciation of these brilliant works of literature. It will also help expand your spirituality to see God’s presence in the world around you as you prepare for Easter.
Full of riches, Hearing God in Poetry is a book that you will want to turn to time and time again – whether during Lent or in any other season of the year.
Author
Richard Harries
Book Format
Paperback / softback
Publisher
SPCK Publishing
Published
November 2021
Weight
209g
Page Count
208
Dimensions
12.9 x 19.8 x 1.2 cm
ISBN
9780281086290
ISBN-10
028108629X
Eden Code
5528114
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Ash Wednesday to Lent, week 1: Preparation
Ash Wednesday - Surview - Thomas Hardy
Thursday - King Lear - William Shakespeare
Friday - The poor parson - Geoffrey Chaucer 9
Saturday Lachrimae amantis Geoffrey Hill
Week 1: Testing
Monday - Batter my heart - John Donne
Tuesday - God moves in a mysterious way - William Cowper
Wednesday - Twice - Christina Rossetti
Thursday - The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Friday - In Memoriam - Alfred Lord Tennyson
Saturday - In memory of W. B. Yeats - W. H. Auden
Week 2: Grace
Monday - I count the moments of my mercies up - Elizabeth Jennings
Tuesday - The quality of sprawl - Les Murray
Wednesday - If thou must love me . . . - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Thursday - The moor - R. S. Thomas
Friday - The kingdom of God - Francis Thompson
Saturday - Prayer - Carol Ann Duffy
Week 3: Glory in the ordinary
Monday - Miracles - Walt Whitman
Tuesday - And that is your glory - Yehuda Amichai
Wednesday - The glory - Edward Thomas
Thursday - Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey - William Wordsworth 69
Friday - Jubilate Agno - Christopher Smart
Saturday - Ode on a Grecian urn - John Keats
Week 4: Parental love
Monday - Oh antic God - Lucille Clifton
Tuesday - The almond tree - Jon Stallworthy
Wednesday - Walking away - C. Day-Lewis
Thursday - Mother to son - Langston Hughes
Friday - Digging - Seamus Heaney
Saturday - Taking a chance - Richard Harries
Week 5: Being fully human
Monday - As kingfishers catch fire - Gerard Manley Hopkins
Tuesday - On imagination - Phyllis Wheatley
Wednesday - An Essay on Man - Alexander Pope
Thursday - Eve remembering - Toni Morrison
Friday - One foot in Eden still - Edwin Muir
Saturday - Who am I? - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Holy Week: Death
Monday - When my time come - Khadijah Ibrahiim
Tuesday - The trees are down - Charlotte Mew
Wednesday - The father, the son - Roger McGough
Maundy Thursday - The Dream of the Rood - Early English, anonymous
Good Friday - To the good thief - Saunders Lewis
Holy Saturday - No coward soul is mine - Emily Brontë
Easter and into the new life in Christ
Easter Day - Piers Plowman - William Langland
Monday of Easter Week - Easter - Edmund Spenser
Tuesday of Easter Week - I saw him standing - Ann Griffiths
Wednesday of Easter Week - Easter - George Herbert
Thursday of Easter Week - O Sapientia - Malcolm Guite
Friday of Easter Week - Shadows - D. H. Lawrence
Saturday of Easter Week - Sailing to Byzantium - William Butler Yeats
Second Sunday of Easter - This world is not conclusion - Emily Dickinson
Monday - Signs - Piers Plowright
Tuesday - Little Gidding - T. S. Eliot
Notes
Richard Harries is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Honorary Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. After nineteen years as Bishop of Oxford he was made a Life Peer (Lord Harries of Pentregarth) and he remains active in the House of Lords on human rights issues. He is Emeritus Gresham Professor of Divinity and a Visiting Professor of Theology at King’s College, London, where he was formerly Dean. His voice is well known to many through his regular contributions to the Today programme.
Among his many critically acclaimed books are Seeing God in Art (2020), Haunted by Christ (2018), The Beauty and the Horror (2016), The Re-enchantment of Morality (2008), shortlisted for the Michael Ramsey Prize, and Art and the Beauty of God (1993), selected as book of the year by Anthony Burgess in The Observer.
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