A Century of Poetry
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A Century of Poetry

100 Poems for Searching the Heart

  1. 400 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

A Century of Poetry

100 Poems for Searching the Heart

About this book

‘All serious lovers of poetry will want this book.’ A. N. Wilson


All good poetry has the power to transport and transform us, to inspire and challenge us, to comfort and heal us, and to hold up a mirror to the world around us.

In A Century of Poetry, Rowan Williams invites you to reflect with him on 100 poems from the past 100 years – poems with an originality and depth that can impel you to search your heart, and to explore your own experience and emotions at a deeper level.

Featuring the work of both famous and lesser-known poets, from different faiths, languages and cultures, A Century of Poetry gives you a fresh perspective on works you may be familiar with, as well as introducing you to poems you’ll be pleased to discover for the first time – or perhaps discover again.

These meditations, by a writer who is both a poet and a theologian, will open new doors into the experience of reading and absorbing great poetry, highlighting the ways in which their language and imagery can touch unfamiliar places in the heart and enliven the lifelong adventure of spiritual growth and exploration.

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Information

Publisher
SPCK Publishing
Year
2022
Print ISBN
9780281085521
eBook ISBN
9780281085545
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Criticism in Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Gillian Allnutt Verger, Winter Afternoon, Galilee Chapel
  2. Yehuda Amichai Jews in the Land of Israel
  3. Yehuda Amichai The Real Hero
  4. Mia Anderson Prayer Is Scrubbing
  5. W. H. Auden Friday’s Child
  6. W. H. Auden Luther
  7. Jay Bernard Tympanum
  8. John Betjeman Norfolk
  9. Chaim Bialik Alone
  10. Ruth Bidgood The Pause
  11. Yves Bonnefoy Noli me tangere
  12. Euros Bowen Lazarus
  13. George Mackay Brown Epiphany Poem
  14. John Burt Sonnets for Mary of Nazareth III
  15. Charles Causley I Am the Great Sun
  16. Charles Causley Eden Rock
  17. Paul Celan Count Up the Almonds
  18. Paul Celan Your Beyondness
  19. Jack Clemo Cactus in Clayscape
  20. Adam Czerniawski Self-judgement
  21. Hilary Davies Penance
  22. Imtiaz Dharker Prayer
  23. Imtiaz Dharker Living Space
  24. Isabel Dixon One of the First Times After
  25. Emmanuel Egbunu Farewell
  26. T. S. Eliot Journey of the Magi
  27. Rhina Espaillat Martha Considers the Lilies
  28. Rhina Espaillat Falling
  29. U. A. Fanthorpe Half-past Two
  30. Caleb Femi At a House Party, ‘Ultralight Beam’ Came on & It Started a Church Service
  31. Kate Foley Tikkun Olam: Mending the World
  32. Louise Glück Vespers
  33. Joy Harjo Don’t Bother the Earth Spirit
  34. Kevin Hart Facing the Pacific at Night
  35. Geoffrey Hill The Orchards of Syon XLIII
  36. Geoffrey Hill The Orchards of Syon XLV
  37. John Hodgen Visitation
  38. Fanny Howe The Angels
  39. Fanny Howe The Descent
  40. Sally Ito At the Beginning of Lent: Ash Wednesday
  41. Mark Jarman Unholy Sonnets 7
  42. Mark Jarman Unholy Sonnets 17
  43. Elizabeth Jennings A Childhood Horror
  44. D. Gwenallt Jones Sin
  45. Brigit Pegeen Kelly The Music Lesson
  46. Sarah Klassen Advent
  47. Avraham Yitzhak Kook Sukkot: The Light in the Sukkah
  48. Avraham Yitzhak Kook Sukkot: The Sukkah of Peace
  49. Denise Levertov The Jacob’s Ladder
  50. Denise Levertov A Place of Kindness
  51. Gwyneth Lewis How to Read Angels
  52. Saunders Lewis Prayer at the End
  53. Maitreyabandhu (Ian Johnson) The Postulant
  54. Paul Mariani Holy Saturday
  55. Thomas Merton The Fall
  56. Larissa Miller It was on the Very Last Day of Creation
  57. Larissa Miller I’m on about My Own Stuff Again, and Again
  58. Les Murray Poetry and Religion
  59. Les Murray The Chimes of Neverwhere
  60. Paul Murray The Rock
  61. Dorothy Nimmo The Pottery Lesson
  62. Naomi Shihab Nye Fundamentalism
  63. Naomi Shihab Nye The Words Under the Words
  64. Alice Oswald Seabird’s Blessing
  65. Ruth Padel Learning to Make an Oud in Nazareth
  66. Sylvia Plath Mystic
  67. Michael Symmons Roberts On Easter Saturday
  68. Michael Symmons Roberts A New Song
  69. Tadeusz Różewicz Unrecorded Epistle
  70. Tadeusz Różewicz Thorn
  71. Gjertrud Schnackenburg A Gilded Lapse of Time 12
  72. David Scott The Friends’ Meeting Room
  73. David Scott Canon Fenton, Theologian
  74. Olga Sedakova The Angel of Rheims
  75. Olga Sedakova Chinese Journey 18
  76. Martha Serpas Poem Found
  77. Vikram Seth This
  78. Karl Shapiro The Alphabet
  79. C. H. Sisson Steps to the Temple
  80. Dana Littlepage Smith Thoughts Without Order Concerning the Love of God
  81. Stevie Smith The Airy Christ
  82. John Solilo Truth
  83. A. E. Stallings First Miracle
  84. Avrom Sutzkever The Lead Plates of the Rom Printers
  85. Avrom Sutzkever Who Will Be Left? What Will Be Left?
  86. Dylan Thomas The Conversation of Prayer
  87. R. S. Thomas Sea-watching
  88. R. S. Thomas Neither
  89. Sally Thomas biddan (to pray)
  90. Derek Walcott A City’s Death by Fire
  91. Vernon Watkins A Christening Remembered
  92. Vernon Watkins Adam
  93. Aled Jones Williams Faith
  94. Charles Williams Taliessin on the Death of Virgil
  95. Waldo Williams What Is Man?
  96. Christian Wiman Coming into the Kingdom
  97. Franz Wright Wake
  98. James Wright Saint Judas
  99. Adam Zagajewski Mysticism for Beginners
  100. Jan Zwicky Grace Is Unmoved. It Is the Light that Melts, excerpt from ‘Philosophers’ Stone’
  101. Copyright acknowledgements
  102. Bibliography