Joy: 100 Poems (Wiman Christian)(Paperback)

Joy: 100 Poems (Wiman Christian)(Paperback)

One hundred of the most evocative modern poems on joy, selected by an award-winning contemporary poet Christian Wiman, a poet known for his meditations on mortality, has long been fascinated by joy and by its relative absence in modern literature. Why is joy so resistant to language? How has it

Survival Is a Style: Poems (Wiman Christian)(Paperback)

Named as a 2020 Book of the Year by The Times Literary Supplement Survival Is a Style, Christian Wiman's first collection of new poems in six years, may be his best book yet. His many readers will recognize the musical and formal variety, the voice that can be tender and funny, credibly mystical

Stolen Air: Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam (Wiman Christian)(Paperback)

Osip Mandelstam was perhaps the most important Russian poet of the nineteen-hundreds--a crucial instigator of the 'revolution of the word' that took place in early twentieth-century St. Petersburg and a political non-conformist who earned the enmity of Stalin and his totalitarian regime. With

Swan: Poems and Prose Poems (Oliver Mary)(Paperback)

'Joy is not made to be a crumb,' writes Mary Oliver, and certainly joy abounds in her new book of poetry and prose poems. Swan, her twentieth volume, shows us that, though we may be 'made out of the dust of stars,' we are of the world she captures here so vividly. Swan is Oliver's tribute to 'the

An American Sunrise: Poems (Harjo Joy)(Paperback)

In this stunning collection, Joy Harjo finds blessings in the abundance of her homeland and confronts the site where her people, and other indigenous families, essentially

Horsepower: Poems (Priest Joy)(Paperback)

Priest's debut collection, Horsepower, is a cinematic escape narrative that radically envisions a daughter's waywardness as aspirational. Across the book's three sequences, we find the black-girl speaker in the midst of a self-imposed exile, going back in memory to explore her younger self-a

For Lovers of God Everywhere: Poems of the Christian Mystics (Housden Roger)(Paperback)

Roger Housden, author of the best-selling Ten Poems to Change Your Life, celebrates the growing popularity of mystical poetry with this beautiful compilation from the Christian contemplative tradition. Although the writings of the Sufi mystics (Rumi and Hafez) and the Indian mystics (Mirabai and

Wandering Joy (Schurmann Reiner)(Paperback)

In this remarkable work, Reiner Sch rmann shows Meister Eckhart, the thirteenth-century Christian mystic, as the great teacher of the birth of God in the soul, which shatters the dualism between God and the world, the self and God. This is an exposition of Eckhar's mysticism--perhaps the best in

100 Poems to Save the Earth (Brigley Zo)(Paperback)

This landmark anthology, 100 Poems to Save the Earth, presents a positive and determined impulse to change for the better how human beings interact with the environment.These imaginative, questing poems reveal our crisis as fundamentally a crisis of perception. We can no longer view Earth as a

Essex Hundred - Essex History in 100 Poems(Paperback / softback)

100 Poems (Heaney Seamus)(Paperback)

Selected poems from a Nobel laureateSeamus Heaney had the idea to make a personal selection of poems from across the entire arc of his writing life, a collection small yet comprehensive enough to serve as an introduction for all comers. He never managed to do this himself, but now, finally, the

God Speaks Through Wombs: Poems on God's Unexpected Coming (Jackson Drew)(Paperback)

Christian Book Award Finalist But God speaks through wombs, birthing prophetic utterances. . . . Enough of this unbelieving religion that masquerades as faith. Divine favor is placed on what we have disgraced. In God Speaks Through Wombs, Drew Jackson explores the first eight chapters of Luke's

Blood and Bone: Poems by Physicians (Belli Angela)(Paperback)

An anthology of 100 poems, written by physicians, exploring the connections between medicine and

Olympic Poems: 100% Unofficial! (Moses Brian)(Paperback)

A brilliant, funny and inspiring collection of poems about sport by Brian Moses and Roger Stevens There are poems about winning and about taking part; poems about having all the right kit, but no talent; poems that show that coming first in the egg and spoon race really is as important to your mum

100 Poems from the Japanese (Rexroth Kenneth)(Paperback)

The poems are drawn chiefly from the traditional Manyoshu, Kokinshu and Hyakunin Isshu collections, but there are also examplaes of haiku and other later forms. The sound of the Japanese texts i reproduced in Romaji script and the names of the poets in the calligraphy of Ukai Uchiyama. The

100 Favourite Scottish Love Poems(Paperback / softback)

This work features a vibrant selection of the best Scottish love poems, with each poet limited to one poem with the exception of Burns himself, that spans centuries and feelings of affection and desire. Through these poems many different kinds of love are explored whether it is sexual, passionate,

No Tears in Heaven (Spurgeon Charles Haddon)(Paperback)

No Tears in Heaven speaks of the great joy of the Christian Faith - Heaven. This book brings together, in a new way, a number of Charles Haddon Spurgeon's exhilarating teachings on Heaven. The writings of Spurgeon, in his typically beautiful and penetrating style, will deepen our anticipation of

Poems to Help Your Christian Walk (Taylor Brian)(Paperback)

No matter what stage we go through in our walk with Jesus, we need encouragement and we need to experience His joy and peace. Jesus brings us joy and peace during troubling times if we walk in His truth according to His Word. I hope these poems strengthen your relationship with our great God and

A Naked Tree: Love Sonnets to C. S. Lewis and Other Poems (Davidman Joy)(Paperback)

Displays for the first time the complete work of a neglected poetic genius Although best known as C. S. Lewis's wife, Joy Davidman was a gifted writer herself who produced, among other things, two novels and an award-winning volume of poetry in her short lifetime. The first comprehensive

Churchly Joy: Orthodox Devotions for the Church Year (Bulgakov Sergius)(Paperback)

Translated by Boris Jakim 'There are two worlds for the Christian and two lives in them: one of these lives belongs to this world of sorrow and suffering, while the other is lived in a hidden manner in the Kingdom of God, in the joyful city of heaven. All of the events, both of the Gospel and of

Slapstick (McGough Roger)(Paperback / softback)

Features poems about poems, poems about life, poems about kangaroos and chameleons and caterpillars (though not in the same verse), and

Understanding Christian Leadership (Parkinson Ian)(Paperback)

Understanding Christian Leadership offers an examination of a distinctly Christian understanding of leadership offering a critical appraisal of insights from secular theories of leadership, exploring biblical and other theological insights into the nature and practice of leadership. Whilst arguing

Christmas Poems (Fanthorpe U. a.)(Paperback)

U.A. Fanthorpe's Christmas Poems gathers together the poems she wrote and sent to friends as Christmas cards from 1974 to 2002. Now readers can enjoy Fanthorpe's yearly output in its entirety. Her subject matter covers a broad range of seasonal characters, from angels to personified Christmas

Poems Out Loud! - First Poems to Read and Perform (Ladybird)(Paperback / softback)