After Prayer
New sonnets and other poems
Published on 25. October 2019
96 pages
978-1-78622-212-1 (ISBN)
Description
This major new poetry collection from bestselling poet and priest Malcolm Guite features more than seventy new and previously unpublished works. It includes a sequence of twenty seven sonnets written in response to George Herbert's exquisite sonnet 'Prayer', as well as forty five more widely ranging new poems.
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Canterbury Press Norwich
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Content
- Intro
- After Prayer
- Also by Malcolm Guite
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- PART I. After Prayer: A Response to George Herbert
- Prayer - George Herbert
- 1 The Church's Banquet
- 2 Angel's Age
- 3 God's Breath in Man Returning to his Birth
- 4 The Soul in Paraphrase
- 5 Heart in Pilgrimage
- 6 The Christian Plummet
- 7 Engine Against Th' Almightie
- 8 Sinner's Tower
- 9 Reversèd Thunder
- 10 Christ's Side-piercing Spear
- 11 The Six Days World Transposing in an Hour
- 12 A Kind of Tune
- 13 Softness
- 14 Peace
- 15 Joy
- 16 Love
- 17 Bliss
- 18 Exalted Manna
- 19 Gladness of the Best
- 20 Heaven in Ordinary
- 21 Man Well Dressed
- 22 The Milky Way
- 23 The Bird of Paradise
- 24 Church Bells Beyond the Stars Heard
- 25 The Soul's Blood
- 26 The Land of Spices
- 27 Something Understood
- Motes
- Amen
- Seven Heavens, Seven Hells: A Sequence for the Spheres
- PART II. Lost and Found
- Shed-Fever
- Preliminary Ritual
- Emily Dickinson's Desk
- 17 Gough Square
- Dactylics
- A Little Contraband
- Revisions
- How to Scan a Poet
- Photo-graphy
- Half-life, an epitaph
- Lost and Found
- Questions for a Painting by Giovanni Bellini
- O Virgo Virginum
- First Christmas
- The Song of the Hart
- Aubade
- A Villanelle on Easter Day
- A Lens
- Strange Surprise
- Iona Song
- St Francis Drops in on My Gig
- St Augustine and the Reapers
- Four Voices
- A Rondeau for Leonard Cohen
- Invitation
- Nothing Said
- Discomfited
- Different Trains
- A Wealth of Images and Memories
- A Song Remembered
- Out for the Count
- The Last Waltz
- Mistakes
- Advice to a 'Statesman'
- Distant
- Observations
- Empty
- Earth to Earth
- To Make an End
- November's Song
- Remembrance Sunday Afternoon
- Two Sonnets
- The Great Physician
- Seven Poems from Ordinary Saints
- The Seasons' Benedictions
