Waiting on the Word English 2015
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ISBN:
9781848258006
Publisher:
Hymns Ancient & Modern
Pages:
176
Weight:
442 g
Dimensions:
13.5 x 21.6 x 11.8 cm
Book Cover:
Paperback
Thema:
- Christianity
- Relating to Christian people and groups
- Personal religious testimony and popular inspirational works
- Poetry / Poems
Advent is a season of waiting and anticipation in which the waiting itself is strangely rich and fulfilling. Poetry can help us fathom the depths of Advent's many paradoxes: dark and light, emptiness and fulfilment, ancient and ever new.
For every day from Advent Sunday to Christmas Day and beyond, the bestselling poet Malcolm Guite chooses a favourite poem from across the Christian spiritual and English literary traditions and offers incisive seasonal reflections on it. In the spirit of the season, he blends the familiar and the new, ranging from from spiritual classics such as Edmund Spenser, John Donne, George Herbert and Christina Rossetti, to contemporary voices Luci Shaw and Scott Cairns. His own acclaimed sequence of sonnets for the great Advent antiphons are also included.
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