Poetry

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...

These religious poems are litanies of love and life, work, patience, and prayer. They are collected from over two decades of writing, and seasoned with the savor of five decades of living a monastic life.

Although the literary form is poetry, this is a book about the spiritual life. Focused around monastic themes, the poems speak to the spiritual seeker and curious bystander alike by presenting a range of spiritual experiences in accessible language.

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...