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Religious poetry

Religious poetry
George Herbert, Priest and Poet

George Herbert, Priest and Poet

Kenneth Mason
George Herbert's total dedication provides inspiration and encouragement to priests who desire to experience more deeply the holiness of their own priesthood.

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£2.50

At the Lighting of the Lamps

At the Lighting of the Lamps

Paul John McGuckin
The Church has always used hymns to express its spirit and doctrine. Free-verse translations of some well-known early hymns, alongside the original Greek and Latin texts.

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£5.75

From Perfection to the Elixir

From Perfection to the Elixir

How George Herbert Fashioned a Famous Poem

Ben de La Mare
Ben de la Mare’s inherited and deep understanding of poetry leads him to explore George Herbert’s  spiritual journey in the composition of his famous hymn, Teach Me My God and King.

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£3.00

Middle English Poet

Middle English Poet

John Gallas
Middle English Lyrics are characterized by their brevity and intensity of expression. They were composed by men and women from both sacred and secular backgrounds and survive in numerous manuscript sources. This collection brings together works that...

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£5.50

Amado Nervo

Amado Nervo

John Gallas
Amado Nervo (1870–1919) was a Mexican poet generally considered the most distinguished exponent of the literary movement known as Modernismo. Although he intended to become a priest, he abandoned his studies in 1888 and turned first to journalism...

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£6.00

Voice Inside Our Home

Voice Inside Our Home

Selected Poems

Edward Clarke
This selection of poetry draws on the author’s developing relationship with the Psalms over a number of years, and on the inspiration of the birth and early years of his two sons, culminating in a set of eulogies or sonnets in prayer. The whole is a...

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£5.50

Drops in the Sea of Time

Drops in the Sea of Time

Women and God

John Gallas
This selection of poetry by female authors explores our relationship with God and creation. The collection includes many of the greatest women poets of history, from around the world and across the ages: from a Rwandan housewife to a Japanese...

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£6.00

Anglo-Saxon Poets

Anglo-Saxon Poets

The High Roof of Heaven

John Gallas
This anthology of Old English poetry brings together sacred texts from two of the great surviving Anglo-Saxon poetic codices: the Vercelli Book, including one of the most famous of medieval texts, the Vision of the Rood, and the Exeter Book, source...

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£5.50

Fly Not Too High

Fly Not Too High

Gabrielle de Coignard & Vittoria Colonna

John Gallas
Like private prayers, the sacred sonnets of Gabrielle de Coignard (c. 1550–1586) and Vittoria Colonna (1492–1547) have long been soft utterances in a quiet corner of devotional literature. Bright expressions of faith amongst the problems and...

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£6.00

Chancing on Sanctity

Chancing on Sanctity

Selected Poems

James Ramsay
In a variety of moods and forms the poems in this collection attempt to capture something of the spiritual element that resides in the ore of common experience. They range from sing-song verse to taut lines embodying struggle. In some the everyday...

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£5.50

This Far Place

This Far Place

Gabriela Mistral

John Gallas
In 1945 Gabriela Mistral became the first Latin American author to be awarded a Nobel Prize. She was a passionate advocate for many disadvantaged groups in her native Chile, but particularly women and children living in poverty and unable to access...

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£5.50

Touchpapers

Touchpapers

John Gallas
This is a collection of extracts, quotes and short poems offered to stimulate contemplation of a single brief idea. By poets and writers famous and unknown, these encourage the reader to seek more of the same, or simply provide a thought or idea on...

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£6.75

Divine Themes & Celestial Praise

Divine Themes & Celestial Praise

Henry Vaughan & George Herbert

Henry Vaughan George Herbert
This book contains poems by Henry Vaughan, all of them selected from the 1655 edition of Silex Scintillans. Almost all are followed by a related poem from George Herbert’s 1633 collection, The Temple. For Vaughan, Herbert was that ‘blessed man,...

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£7.00

Love Will Come with Fire

Love Will Come with Fire

Contemplative Poetry

Sisters of the Love of God
An anthology of poetry written by Sisters of the Community of the Love of God.

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£7.00

Selected Poems

Selected Poems

Clare McKerron
This collection speaks about the experience of nature, religion, thought, ideas and people; sometimes with the anxiety that those relationships can bring, but also with plenty of celebration. There are thoughtful ponderings, gazing into the beauty...

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£5.50

Take Flight to God

Take Flight to God

Reinhard Sorge, John Gallas
The religious poetry of Reinhard Sorge speaks of his journey to Christian belief, and the final joy and deep love of God that he eventually found. This is the first time a book entirely of Sorge’s poetry has been published in the English Language,...

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£6.50

Embertide

Embertide

Encountering Saint Frideswide

Romola Parish
St Frideswide, or Frithuswith, was an important saint during the medieval period and is patron of the City of Oxford. Her shrine was a place of pilgrimage but was destroyed during the Reformation and since then she has largely disappeared from view....

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£6.50

Lent with George Herbert

Lent with George Herbert

Tony Dickinson
The poetry of George Herbert has inspired the faith of countless Christians over the centuries. In this book Tony Dickinson takes eight of the poems from The Temple (1633), that tackle the themes of frailty and forgiveness, as the inspiration for a...

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£6.00

Dante's Spiritual Journey

Dante's Spiritual Journey

A Reading of the Divine Comedy

Tony Dickinson
This book describes how Dante’s journey through the three realms of his Divine Comedy maps onto the inner spiritual journey of all Christians. Dante’s questions still concern us today and the text accompanies us on our quest to a greater...

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£5.00

Discovery

Discovery

Arthur Bell
Arthur Bell was Priest-in-Charge at St John’s Mission, Wabasca, 1967–1972 and 1977–1982. This book, commissioned by the Anglican Bishop of Athabasca, relates his adventures in the north of Alberta between 1969 and 1972, told through poetic sequence,...

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£10.00

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