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| Publication Date: 1 Nov 2011 |
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| Format: Paperback |
| Publisher: SPCK Publishing |
| Page Count: 176 |
| Author: Janet Morley |
| ISBN-13: 9780281063727 |
The Heart's Time
A Poem A Day For Lent And Easter
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ISBN-13
9780281063727
£10.99
Summary of The Heart's Time
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Varied, beautiful, provocative and nurturing.
Morley has a wonderful turn of phrase herself and her commentaries are beautiful, insightful, and encouraging of a prayerful and personal response. I think this deserves to become a classic and will repay many readings.
Like the Psalms, the poetry is as much rooted in life experience as in piety, and the variety of authors ensures it is no narrow vein of spirituality which is bin promoted. Through wonderful reading notes, Janet Morley opens doors for discerning and reluctant readers of poetry alike.
I think this is a brilliant Lent book, and one I would use. It is a marvellous anthology, but it offers so much more: critical insight into the poems, cultural and theological insight into their spiritual resonances and guidance as to how to read them prayerfully.
Morley takes a poem, interprets it and applies it, marking a pilgrimage of the heart . . . each interpretation making me feel as if I was gently taken apart and remade anew.
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It will appeal to existing poetry lovers as well as those who want to start exploring how poems can be a resource for our spiritual lives, whether or not they are written with a consciously Christian intent.
Poets often address subjects our culture seeks to avoid, and poetry demands that we 'slow down to the heart's time' in order to discover deeper levels of meaning than at first appear.
Janet Morley offers her own skilful and reflective commentaries on a fascinating themed sequence of both familiar and unexpected poems, including works by Margaret Atwood, St Augustine, Charles Causley, E. E. Cummings, Emily Dickinson, Carol Ann Duffy, Ruth Fainlight, U. A. Fanthorpe, Robert Frost, Seamus Heaney, George Herbert, Elizabeth Jennings, Denise Levertov, Roger McGough, Adrienne Rich, Christina Rossetti, R. S. Thomas and Rowan Williams.