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Poetry

Reflect on faith and doubt, hope and fear, life and death with poets Malcolm Guite, Rowan Williams, R. S. Thomas, Carol Ann Duffy and others.

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The Shorter Writings of Catherine Booth

Rachel Mann

While born into a working-class Methodist family in a small English town, Catherine Booth (1829-1890) went on to become one of the most influential women of her day and age. As a preacher, author, social reformer, wife and mother, she played a...

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£35.00

Love, Remember

40 poems of loss, lament and hope

Malcolm Guite

The bestselling poet Malcolm Guite chooses forty poems from across the centuries that express the universal experience of loss and reflects on them in order to draw out the comfort, understanding and hope they offer.

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£12.99

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Fordham, A History of the Jesuit University of New York

1841-2003

Sofia Starnes

Based largely on archival sources in the United States and Rome, this book documents the evolution of Fordham from a small diocesan college into a major American Jesuit and Catholic university. It places the development of Fordham within the...

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£39.00

The Splash of Words

Believing in Poetry

Mark Oakley

Whether you love poetry or haven't read it since school, The Splash of Words will help you rediscover poetry's power to startle, challenge and reframe your vision. It includes a selection of poems, each accompanied by a reflection exploring why...

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£12.99

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Evolving Humanity and Biblical Wisdom

Reading Scripture through the Lens of Teilhard de Chardin

Kenneth Steven, Alastair Jackson, Cailean Maclean

Teilhard de Chardin, twentieth-century paleontologist and Jesuit, envisioned an explosion in global communication that could expand human consciousness to the point of universal empathy. In the process, he joined his scientific knowledge to his...

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£12.99

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Ruling the Spirit

Women, Liturgy, and Dominican Reform in Late Medieval Germany

Jeanne Murray Walker

Histories of the German Dominican order have long presented a grand narrative of its origin, fall, and renewal: a Golden Age at the order's founding in the thirteenth century, a decline of Dominican learning and spirituality in the fourteenth,...

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£58.00

Eyes Have I That See

Selected Poems

Father John-Julian, O.J.N.

From rough folk-verse to high-flown poesy, from a nine-line rhyme to a six-hundred-line epic, both the style and genre of the poetry in this volume cover a broad range of poetic possibility. This is the first volume of John Julian's poetry ever...

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£11.99

Almost Entirely

Poems

Jennifer Wallace

Rooted in the grit of urban Baltimore and the forests of rural Massachusetts, these poems remind us that life's tensions and polarities are energies we carry within ourselves. These are poems of witness and commentary, conversation and...

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£15.00

Rain Falling by the River

New and Selected Poems of the Spirit

Christopher Southgate

As a spiritual director, theologian, teacher and chaplain, Christopher Southgate's poetry resonates deeply with human experience and has received wide recognition. Here he collects together new and some of his most popular poems that touch on...

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£11.99

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The Sea Sleeps

New and Selected Poems

Greg Miller

This collection draws heavily from the core devotional strain in Miller's poetry, offering what novelist Fenton Johnson described in his review of Iron Wheel as "the vision and experience of that place where dark merges seamlessly into light; the...

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£15.99

Iona

The Other Island

Kenneth Steven, Iain Sarjeant

This beautiful spiritual evocation of Iona blends inspiring photography, poetry, legendary tales and local stories to evoke the intricacies of the island's spiritual web. From half-explored coves and caves to seldom-visited glens and headlands, this...

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£14.99

Collected Poems: 1945-1990 R.S.Thomas

Collected Poems : R S Thomas

rev R.S. Thomas

Published to mark the poet's 80th birthday, this collection confirms R. S. Thomas as our pre-eminent poet. 'This is the book I've been waiting for' Ted Hughes

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£16.99

Sacred Pause

A Creative Retreat for the Word-Weary Christian

Rachel Hackenberg

Our lives are full of words, yes we rarely pause to attend to them, much less take time for personal retreat. This book encourages you to stop and revel in the sights and sounds and meanings of what we say about God. Rachel Hackenberg offers the...

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£12.99

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£7.19

The Paper Sky

El Gruer

This is the first published collection of poems by El Gruer, a performance poet whose work has earned her the title 'The People's Poet'. El's writing is rooted in the belief that poetry is for everyone and she aims to make poetry something to be...

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£10.99

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Parable and Paradox

Sonnets on the Sayings of Jesus and Other Poems

Malcolm Guite

This much-requested follow-up to Sounding the Seasons offers a sequence of new 50 sonnets that focus on many passages in the Gospels: the Beatitudes, parables and miracles, teachings on the Kingdom, and the 'hard sayings' - Jesus' challenging...

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£10.99

I pray in poems

Meditations on Poetry and Faith

Dave Worster

I pray in poems explores the intersection of great works of poetry and faith, offering meditations on what these works illustrate about Christian living. Readers will encounter authors as diverse as William Shakespeare, T.S....

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£10.00

Other Mountain

Rowan Williams

In The Other Mountain Rowan Williams relives moments of intense trial, when women and men are transformed in spirit, and sometimes in body also. He not only reads the signs as they appear in nature and history: he lives them through language....

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£9.95

Poems of Rowan Williams

Dr. Rowan Williams

'I dislike the idea of being a religious poet. I would prefer to be a poet for whom religious things mattered intensely.' In the poems collected in this book, Rowan Williams writes of many things. He visits the Holy Land, commemorates the deaths of...

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£9.95

Uncollected Poems

R. S. Thomas, Tony Brown, Jason Walford Davies

R.S. Thomas (1913-2000) is a major writer of our time, one of the finest religious poets in the English language and one of Wales's greatest poets. His output was prolific: over six decades he published some 25 individual collections of poems, as...

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£9.95

Readings from the Book of Exile

Pádraig Ó Tuama

The first, long-awaited poetry collection from Pádraig Ó Tuama, interweaving parable, poetry, art, activism and philosophy into an original and striking expression of faith. His poems emerge powerfully from a context of struggle and...

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£9.99

Unfurling

Poems by Ian Adams

Ian Adams

Ian Adams is one of the most original voices in contemporary Christian spirituality. His poems are short, arresting, richly textured and deceptively simple. The title of this collection, Unfurling, is indicative of what Ian's poetry is about: seeing...

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£9.99

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The Singing Bowl

Malcolm Guite

Malcolm Guite's eagerly awaited second poetry collection offers poems that seek beauty and transfiguration in contemporary life; sonnets inspired by Francis and other outstanding saints; poems centred on love, parting and mortality; and poems...

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£10.99

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£9.99

Sorry For Your Troubles

Pádraig Ó Tuama

One of the most engaging voices contemporary spirituality in is that of the Irish poet, Padraig O'Tuama. This second poetry collection arises out of a decade of his hearing stories of people who have lived through personal and political conflict....

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£9.99

Slow Pilgrim

The Collected Poems of Scott Cairns

Scott Cairns, Richard Howard, Gregory Wolfe

Scott Cairns has carefully preserved every poem he's ever published that he cares to preserve. He's also added previously unpublished work, spanning three decades. A careful introduction by Gregory Wolfe and tribute preface by Richard Howard make...

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£23.99

Waiting on the Word

A Poem a Day for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany

Malcolm Guite

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. A scholar...

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£12.99

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£10.99

Word in the Wilderness

A Poem a Day for Lent and Easter

Malcolm Guite

For every day from Shrove Tuesday to Easter Day, the bestselling poet Malcolm Guite chooses a favourite poem from across the Christian spiritual and English literary traditions and offers incisive reflections on it. A scholar of poetry and a...

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£12.99

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£12.99

Etched by Silence

A Pilgrimage Through the Poetry of R. S. Thomas

Jim Cotter

This collection of poems by Wales' most famous poet-priest, R S Thomas, is interspersed with short reflections and questions for exploration that connect the timeless poetry to the landscape that inspired it. It brings the poetry alive in a fresh...

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£12.99

Sounding the Seasons

Poetry for the Christian Year

Malcolm Guite

Poetry has always been a central element of Christian spirituality and is increasingly used in worship, in pastoral services and guided meditation. Here, Cambridge poet, priest and singer-songwriter Malcolm Guite transforms 70 lectionary readings...

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£9.99

Sanctuary

Poems by Martyn Halsall

Martyn Halsall

A collection of poems that emerged from prize-winning poet Martyn Halsall's year in residence at Carlisle Cathedral in 2013. Based on his observations, notes and interactions, they reflect the wonders, joys and rhythm of cathedral life, patiently...

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£10.99

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£10.99

Complete English Poems

George Herbert, (edited by John Tobin), John Tobin

George Herbert combined the intellectual and the spiritual, the humble and the divine, to create some of the most moving devotional poetry in the English language. His deceptively simple verse uses the ingenious arguments typical of...

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£12.99

Watching for the Kingfisher

Poems and Prayers

Ann Lewin

From small beginnings as a self-published writer producing booklets in response to demand from people who attended her retreats or quiet days, Ann Lewin has gone on to be on of the most successful writers of prayers and reflective poetry. With the...

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£9.99

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£9.99

Psalms Redux

Poems and prayers

Carla Grosch-Miller

These striking and memorable poems are contemporary reworkings of an ancient collection of poetic texts, the Psalms. The Psalms are noted as much for their raw honesty as for their beauty and depth. No human experience or emotion is considered...

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£10.99

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£10.99

Yearning Life

Poems

Regina Walton

"These are meditative poems that seem to rise from a long and deep looking at life, in its most ordinary and familiar moments. They invite us into the gaze, suggesting how the surfaces of things might reveal stronger truths for those who know to...

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£14.00

Holy Luck

Poems of the Kingdom

Eugene H. Peterson

In this collection of captivating and striking poems, the acclaimed writer Eugene Peterson explores the unexpected nature of the kingdom of God, its reversals and surprises. Arising out of his vocation as a pastor, these poems invite a radical...

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£10.99

What W. H. Auden Can Do for You

Alexander McCall Smith

When facing a moral dilemma, Isabel Dalhousie--Edinburgh philosopher, amateur detective, and title character of a series of novels by best-selling author Alexander McCall Smith--often refers to the great twentieth-century poet W. H. Auden. This is...

Hardback

£17.99

Beyond the Drift

New & Selected Poems

David Scott

'David Scott belongs firmly to the long tradition of parson-poets that goes back at least as far as George Herbert - For all their reticence, there is a compassion in these poems and a sense of propriety' - Norman Nicholson Springing from...

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£12.00

SAID - 99 Psalms

SAID, Mark S. Burrows

SAID's 99 Psalms, poems of praise and lament, open us to the mystery of human life.

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£10.99

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£7.19

Idiot Psalms

New Poems

Scott Cairns

A new collection from one of our favorite poets. Fourteen "Idiot Psalms," surrounded by dozens of other poems, make this his most challenging collection yet. "Idiot Psalm 1" O God Beloved if obliquely so, dimly apprehended in the midst of this,...

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£10.99

Readings for Weddings

Canon Mark Oakley, Canon Mark Oakley, Canon Mark Oakley

Readings for Weddings is an inspirational collection of Bible quotations, poems, hymns and prose for secular weddings, church ceremonies and services of blessing. Mark Oakley includes such 'wedding classics' as 1 Corinthians 13 and Khalil Gibran's...

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£10.99

Readings for Funerals

Canon Mark Oakley, Canon Mark Oakley, Canon Mark Oakley

Readings for Funerals is a perceptive collection of Bible quotations, poems, hymns and prose, offering consolation and comfort to those bereaved. Featuring the writing of, amongst others, W. H. Auden, Simon Armitage, Wendy Cope, T. S. Eliot and...

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£12.99

Endless Life

Poems of the Mystics

Scott Cairns

First published in hardcover as Love's Immensity, this powerful book of selections from the mystics East and West, rendered into poetry, is now available in paperback for the first time.

Paperback

£10.99

What Will Soon Take Place

Poems

Tania Runyan

What Will Soon Take Place is an imaginative journey through the book of Revelation. It offers a poet's view of the prophetic, not in the sense of seeking out clues to the "end times," but a means of taking this strange, fantastic book of scripture...

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£15.00

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