The Vanishing Song
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The Vanishing Song

  1. 96 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
Available until 23 Dec |Learn more

The Vanishing Song

About this book

In The Vanishing Song, trans Christian poet Jay Hulme goes in search of what is all but lost in contemporary faith, the 'beautiful and holy and wild' way of the saints, and the alluring, perplexing mystery of the places they chose for themselves ā€“ forests, caves, rocky outcrops in the sea. Revelling in the untamed nature of creation and the holiness that is to be found there, these poems celebrate and summon the spirit of those who did unhinged things for God, in order that we might recover a sense of uncontrollable wonder and the danger of the divine as well as its beauty. The Vanishing Song is a call of the wild to faith that is adventurous and unafraid.

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Information

Publisher
Canterbury Press Norwich
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9781786225252
eBook ISBN
9781786225269
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Religious Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Title page
  2. Copyright information
  3. Contents
  4. Dedication
  5. Epigraph
  6. Introduction
  7. Waking the Dead
  8. A Saint Dies Beside the Nidd
  9. The Madness of St Robert of Knaresborough
  10. A Saint looks up from his prayers to discover heā€™s been dead for some time
  11. Beneath Hexham Abbey
  12. Nobody asked the Island if she wanted to be Holy
  13. Insula Sacra
  14. An Almost Pilgrimage
  15. Iā€™m not saying I talk to the dead, but the Saint and I chatted
  16. St Swithun Dreams of Rain
  17. Mother of Saints
  18. ColmƔn Elo travels to Iona
  19. Somewhere South of Holy Island
  20. Inner Farne ā€” March, 687
  21. ā€˜I am come hither to leave my bonesā€™
  22. Thomas Haukes
  23. The Devil Un(ac)countable
  24. The Diocese has upheld your complaint of abuse
  25. Joseph of Panephysis
  26. Replacing the flowers on St Valentineā€™s head
  27. The Martyrs of CompiĆØgne
  28. Mother Julian
  29. Patron Saint of Violets // I Want
  30. Hildegard von Bingen maps the Universe
  31. ā€˜What rage or madness drives you?ā€™
  32. The Holy Family
  33. A Place of Great Faith
  34. The Temptation of Simeon Theodochos
  35. St Guinefort
  36. The Hermit Studies Astronomy
  37. Fountains Abbey Vs Knaresborough Town ā€” 1218
  38. The Monk in the Bookshop
  39. Gratia
  40. A Congregation of None
  41. With Green Men in the Rafters
  42. Do not Sing, but Reply
  43. Syrinx
  44. Mass at St Beunos
  45. In a Moment of Silence
  46. Psalm 139
  47. Psalm 139
  48. We Miraculous Specimens
  49. The Creation of Adam
  50. Monarch Butterflies
  51. Jesus encounters death for the first time
  52. In the Pit Beneath Caiaphasā€™ House
  53. Easter Eggs
  54. Scientists and Gravediggers
  55. An Assembly Guide for the Resurrection
  56. The Afterlife
  57. Funeral Plans (or: a Threat)
  58. Jigsaw Anatomy
  59. Before the Resurrection: Death
  60. Auto-archaeology
  61. The Afterlife (reprise)
  62. Even the Pious Want Silence
  63. William Turnerā€™s Cataracts
  64. God Rays
  65. Community in Common
  66. A Churchwarden Speaks
  67. St Giles-in-the-Fields
  68. Fountains Abbey
  69. Vultures with copes for wings
  70. God as a Carpenter; hands shot through with nails
  71. A New Commandment
  72. Biographies
  73. Thanks
  74. Acknowledgements