Author : Micheal O'Siadhail
Publisher : Canterbury Press
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 29,29 MB
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1786221977
The Five Quintets is a mammoth poetic adventure undertaken by the celebrated poet Micheal O’Siadhail, attempting nothing less than an exploration of the predicaments of Western modernity. Drawing on inspiration from T S Eliot’s Four Quartets, The Five Quintets brings the premise of Dante’s Divine Comedy into the current day.
Author : Micheal O'Siadhail
Publisher : Canterbury Press
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 17,32 MB
Release : 2019-06-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1786221950
The Five Quintets is a mammoth poetic adventure undertaken by the celebrated poet Micheal O’Siadhail, representing the culmination of an extraordinary life’s work. The project is vast in scope, attempting nothing less than an exploration of the predicaments of Western modernity. Drawing on inspiration from T S Eliot’s Four Quartets, The Five Quintets brings the premise of Dante’s Divine Comedy into the current day. As Dante explored humanity though mythical characters, O’Siadhail focuses on the humanity of the creators of today’s dreams of perfection: scientists, artists, economists, politicians, politics, and philosophers and theologians from the past speak with each other in this extraordinarily imaginative work. The result is an unparalleled book of instruction for a troubled age. The Five Quintets retrieves and exhibits human gifts our own age may have lost to create a work ‘whose pulse draws us to love. A book of poetry in the category of the epic, the encyclopedic, and the sacred.’ (Peter Ochs, Professor of Judaic Studies, Virginia).
Author : Micheal O'Siadhail
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,8 MB
Release : 2013
Category : English poetry
ISBN : 9781852249823
This is a collection of the poet's work drawing from thirteen titles from throughout his life's work.
Author : Micheal O'Siadhail
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,93 MB
Release : 2018-08-15
Category : English poetry
ISBN : 9781481309189
Celebrated poet Micheal O'Siadhail knows desire, love, trust, and wonder. He also intimately knows sorrow, suffering, tragedy, and loss. His life and his poetry have always yearned for meaning and virtue despite, and in the midst of, life's pain. This collection of poems, spanning four decades and drawing upon thirteen smaller collections, works both head and heart toward a mature and seasoned wisdom. The poems are not only richly personal, plumbing the depths of marriage, friendship, vocation, and grief, but they also engage with what matters most in culture and society--music, language, city life, and the dynamics of history. O'Siadhail's roots may be deeply Irish, but his poetry speaks for and to all.
Author : Mark Oakley
Publisher : Canterbury Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 50,30 MB
Release : 2016-08-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1848254687
Whether you love poetry or haven't read it since school, The Splash of Words will help you rediscover poetry’s power to startle, challenge and reframe your vision. Like throwing a pebble into water, a poem causes a ‘splash of words’ whose ripples can transform the way we see the world, ourselves and God. Through thirty selected poems, from the fourteenth century to the present day, Mark Oakley explores poetry’s power to stir our settled ways of viewing the world and faith, shift our perceptions and even transform who we are.
Author : R.A. Salvatore
Publisher : Wizards of the Coast
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 23,78 MB
Release : 2011-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0786954329
From the beloved creator of the Legend of Drizzt comes the thrilling first adventure in the Cleric Quintet—the story of a young cleric who is destined for greatness High in the Snowflake Mountains sits the Edificant Library, a place of scholarly study for priests, bards, and anyone who seeks knowledge for the sake of the greater good. This mystical place is home to Cadderly, a young cleric who lives a peaceful life of scholarship and invention. When a vicious curse is unleashed on the library, Cadderly must set aside his pursuit of knowledge to lead a motley team of monks, dwarves, and druids—and one alluring young warrior monk named Danica—into the catacombs of the library and a perilous fight against evil. There, the friends must join together as a group of unlikely heroes to save their home from the destruction already pulsing through its walls.
Author : Christopher Southgate
Publisher : Canterbury Press
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 15,83 MB
Release : 2017-04-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1848259689
As a spiritual director, theologian, teacher and chaplain, Christopher Southgate’s poetry resonates deeply with human experience and has received wide recognition. Here he collects together new and some of his most popular poems that touch on spiritual themes. A number of commissioned poems feature in this collection, including one on the King James Bible, quoted by Rowan Williams at the 400th anniversary service in Westminster Abbey. Other poems are drawn directly from biblical narratives, or reflect on the person of Jesus. Also included are poems focusing on places of spiritual significance: Iona, Lindisfarne, Patmos, and the site of 9/11 in Manhattan, as well as poems about suffering and grief including the popular work ‘Coming to Terms’, featured on BBC Radio 4.
Author : Distinguished Poet in Residence and Visiting Poet Micheal O'Siadhail
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,94 MB
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Parkinson's disease
ISBN : 9781481307802
For twenty years, celebrated poet Micheal O'Siadhail's beloved wife, Bríd, suffered from Parkinson's disease. O'Siadhail's verses explore the ordinary triumph of human fidelity and sound the depths of parting through a 150-sonnet sequence in which love faces wasting illness and the specter of death. There is tenderness, intensity, and gratitude--which will resonate with all who know both love and loss.
Author : Graham Kings
Publisher : Canterbury Press
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 34,5 MB
Release : 2020-09-30
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1786222795
Beloved theologian and bishop Graham Kings has been writing poetry for thirty-five years, with many of his poems used in retreats and preaching throughout the Anglican Communion. This collection brings together Graham's poems on a range of devotional subjects.
Author : Malcolm Guite
Publisher : Canterbury Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 18,59 MB
Release : 2015-08-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1848258003
For every day from Advent Sunday to Christmas Day and beyond, the bestselling poet Malcolm Guite chooses a favourite poem from across the Christian spiritual and English literary traditions and offers incisive seasonal reflections on it. A scholar of poetry as well as a renowned poet himself, his knowledge is deep and wide and he offers readers a soul-food feast for Advent. Among the classic writers he includes are: George Herbert, John Donne, Milton, Tennyson,and Christina Rossetti,as well as contemporary poets like Scott Cairns, Luci Shaw, and Grevel Lindop. He also includes a selection of his own highly praised work.
