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Publication Date: 15 Jan 2015 |
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Format: Paperback |
Publisher: SPCK Publishing |
Page Count: 160 |
Author: Mark Oakley |
ISBN-13: 9780281071807 |
Readings for Funerals
Summary of Readings for Funerals
This book will be a great help and a real comfort to anyone going through a difficult time in their life – something that happens to us all sooner or later.
Mark Oakley is highly regarded as a writer, speaker and broadcaster on issues of faith, poetry and literature:
It is extremely unusual to meet anyone who isn’t a specialist who has such a subtle feeling for language.
An exceptionally wide-ranging collection of verse, including some standard favourites, but much that is less well-known: Vera Arlett and Alden Nowlan for example, but also including poems in translation (Quevedo, Kaplinski, Hitomaro). The poems and short reflections are sandwiched between a collection of 46 suggested hymns, making this a book that any lay person could use to start planning a funeral. My only concern is that many of these poems would have to be read aloud by someone experienced at public speaking, or their impact will be lost.