{"id":1986,"date":"2016-07-28T13:18:01","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T13:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn-marriage\/?page_id=1986"},"modified":"2026-02-11T12:06:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T12:06:25","slug":"books","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/writing\/books\/","title":{"rendered":"Books"},"content":{"rendered":"
2026<\/div>
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\"From<\/a><\/div>

\r\n\tFrom Darkness to Light<\/a>\r\n<\/h2>
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\r\n\tAuthor:<\/span> Alwyn Marriage<\/a><\/span>
\t\tGenre:<\/span> 2026<\/a><\/span>
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In the spring of 2026, a stunning exhibition of modern religious art was mounted in Guildford, displaying 25 works by such world-class artists as Graham Sutherland, Elisabeth Frink, Ceri Richards and Maggi Hambling. As part of this major event the poet, Alwyn Marriage, was commissioned to write poems to accompany each work of art at the exhibition, and these poems proved so popular that they have now been published as a collection, along with reproductions of the full-colour artworks to which they were a response.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

If you would like to explore some of the art at a deeper level, there are also a dozen longer reflections on some of the paintings which can be reached through the Art UK website<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

From Darkness to Light<\/span><\/span><\/em> was published by Oversteps Books on behalf of St Mary's Church, Guildford, on 26 February 2026.
\nISBN 978-1-906856-96-0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Please click here to contact Alwyn<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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2025<\/div>
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\"Travelling<\/a><\/div>

\r\n\tTravelling Light<\/a>\r\n<\/h2>
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In a surprising change of career some years ago, Alwyn Marriage found herself travelling the world as Chief Executive of two international literature and literacy NGOs. Looking back now on that decade of travel, she reflects in poetry on some of the wonderful people she met and projects with which she had the privilege to work. <\/span><\/p>\n

Travelling Light<\/em> won the Hedgehog Prize in the 2024 \u201cProper Poetry Collection Competition\u201d. It was published by <\/span>The Hedgehog Poetry Press <\/em><\/a><\/span>on 14 November 2025.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a> Alwyn Marriage\u2019s travelogue poems hold surprises, bright blessings and sensory discoveries: they are snapshots of global humanity, thriving despite inequality. An intelligent woman is forced to walk on her knees; there is peril and crime, but also a deep joy in the rich welcomes of Africa, Polynesia and South America; and always an appetite for shared song.
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This eye-opening collection, the fruit of global travels on behalf of NGOs in the 1990s, is astonishing in its reach and breadth of subject matter. Alwyn Marriage has braved black ants and cockroaches, sea snakes and crocodiles, and airplane pilots saying prayers, while witnessing stark examples of women\u2019s inequality, and wondering about the pitfalls as well as the benefits of opening their eyes.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

It contains moments of lyricism in many far and wide places, such as aboard the Trans-Siberian Express, when the only remaining fare is smoked salmon and Russian champagne, and swimming into a cave in Samoa, and gazing outwards from it, at the open sea. This fascinating sequence of traveller\u2019s tales from Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Pacific, and eastern Europe, demanded to be written. They are d<\/span>e<\/span>spatches from a time before the internet and social media somehow narrowed our horizons.
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Please click here to contact Alwyn<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n More info \u2192<\/a><\/div><\/div>

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2022b<\/div>
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\"Possibly<\/a><\/div>

\r\n\tPossibly a Pomegranate<\/a>\r\n<\/h2>
\u00a39.99<\/span><\/span><\/div>
\r\n\tAuthor:<\/span> Alwyn Marriage<\/a><\/span>
\t\tGenre:<\/span> 2022b<\/a><\/span>
\tTag:<\/span> Recommended Books<\/a><\/span>
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Possibly a Pomegranate celebrates womankind. From ancient history to the modern day, women stride through its pages. Sometimes they dazzle us with their humour and creativity \u2013 too often overlooked by patriarchal contemporaries. At other times, their fate moves us to tears.<\/span><\/p>\n

How rare it is to read a collection so full of calm wisdom, of a lifetime\u2019s experiences and investigations marshalled with a clear eye for what matters and a well-honed gift for finding the words and forms to share them. This celebration of women ranges from girlhood memories and the tenderness of parenthood to the intimacies and aggravations of later years, from insight into lives in different cultures to a roll call of remarkable women through the ages in which Pope Joan rubs shoulders with Jane Austen. These are satisfying and enriching poems.<\/em>\u00a0 Alasdair Paterson, Uncut Poets<\/span>
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An assured exploration of womanhood, with poems as abundant as the fruits in the pomegranate, resonant with love, birth, death, achievement, happiness and heartbreak. Small, unnoticed moments are brought into focus and held still enough to touch. Marriage turns her sympathetic and good humoured gaze on Sappho, Cleopatra, Lot's wife, Heloise, Hildegard, Mother Julian, Grace Darling, Rosa Parkes as well as her own life, creating a rich panoply of women.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em>Maggie Butt, poet and novelist<\/span><\/p>\n

Review by Pat Edwards in London Grip<\/em><\/a>, September 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n

Review by Mandy Pannett in Tears in the Fence<\/em><\/a>, October 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n

Review by Carla Scarano D'Antonio in Write out Loud,<\/em><\/a> November 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n

Review by Dilys Wood in Artemis<\/em>, November 2022<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Review by Emma Lee in The Journal<\/em><\/a>, November 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n

Review by Sue Kindon in The High Window<\/em>, Spring 2023<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Published by Palewell Press<\/a>. There's a video of the launch here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To order a copy, please use the \"Contact Alwyn<\/a>\" link.<\/p>\n More info \u2192<\/a><\/div><\/div>

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2022<\/div>
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\"Chiara\"<\/a><\/div>

\r\n\tChiara<\/a>\r\n<\/h2>
eBook:<\/span> \u00a30.99<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>
\r\n\t\t\tGenre:<\/span> 2022<\/a><\/span>
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In this poem, Alwyn Marriage suggests that St Clare (1194-1253) may be a rather more interesting figure than history suggests.<\/span><\/p>\n

Clare Offreduccio (Chiara) was a normal, healthy and enthusiastic teenager until she was swept off her feet by the dashing young Francis, whom she heard preach with passion. Abandoning her previous life to follow him, she devoted herself to a life of chastity and charity. Images of St Clare in art tend to depict her as an icon of humble obedience and purity, but there may well be more to the story than that.<\/span><\/p>\n

While not wishing to diminish Clare's genuine piety and good works at all, this story suggests that Clare's obvious love of St Francis was more full-blooded and passionate than the official stories have suggested, and that ending up in a convent was not quite what Clare had in mind.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is an ebook published by, and obtainable from, Cut.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n More info \u2192<\/a><\/div><\/div>

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2021<\/div>
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\"Pandora’s<\/a><\/div>

\r\n\tPandora’s Pandemic<\/a>\r\n<\/h2>
\u00a38.00<\/span><\/span><\/div>
\r\n\tAuthor:<\/span> Alwyn Marriage<\/a><\/span>
\t\tGenre:<\/span> 2021<\/a><\/span>
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Pandora\u2019s Pandemic<\/i> is a vivid and personal account of Covid-19 in real time, in poems written actually as it happened. When Covid-19 swept across the world, it took everyone by surprise. Debilitating illness, unprecedented lockdowns and tragic deaths soon followed. And then the questions arose \u2013 how long would the devastation last and would anyone survive? <\/span>Alwyn Marriage contracted Covid-19 early in the pandemic and that is where this moving collection starts. <\/span><\/p>\n

In these vivid poems, Alwyn tracks the course of her own illness and recovery, the death of her brother and the gradual dawning of new hope. Above all, she asks what we have learnt from this pandemic, and whether the world will ever be the same again. This means that, unusually for a poetry book, because it tells the story of Covid-19, you can read Pandora\u2019s Pandemic<\/i> like a novel, not knowing what the next twist will be. This is poetry that grips you, may make you cry, but will also warm your heart. One reader wrote: The poems are wonderful. You have captured our universal experience of the pandemic, rather as the young war poets did ... It's a huge achievement<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n

For more information on <\/span>Pandora's Pandemic<\/span><\/em>, endorsements and unsolicited responses, click on the image of the book cover.<\/span><\/p>\n

There is an interview with Greg Freeman about Pandora's Pandemic<\/em> in Write out Loud<\/em><\/a>, July 2021<\/p>\n

Review by Sue Wallace-Shaddad in London Grip<\/em><\/a>, November 2021.<\/p>\n

Published by SPM Publications<\/a>. To order a copy, please use the \"Contact Alwyn<\/a>\" link.<\/span><\/p>\n

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2 - 2021<\/div>
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\"William<\/a><\/div>

\r\n\tWilliam Harvey’s Visitor<\/a>\r\n<\/h2>
eBook:<\/span> \u00a31.99<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>
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In 1628, the English physician and anatomist, William Harvey, discovered the circulation of the blood. This short story explores whether this great leap in medical knowledge might also be seen as a metaphor for something even more surprising.<\/p>\n

William Harvey Esq was at his desk when God sidled in. Ungreeted, indeed unnoticed, God cleared the dirty coffee cups from the table, tidied up the tobacco pouch and ink - well, then set about laying a fire in the hearth. Still William Harvey\u2019s head was bent in concentration over his papers: God is, after all, very easily missed. It was Spring 1629 ....<\/em><\/p>\n

This is an ebook published by, and obtainable from, Cut.<\/a><\/p>\n More info \u2192<\/a><\/div><\/div>

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2020<\/div>
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\"The<\/a><\/div>

\r\n\tThe Elder Race<\/a>\r\n<\/h2>
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Set in a future in which medical science has eliminated almost all life-threatening illnesses, one woman races <\/span>to escape a Government that is responding to the resulting population explosion with deadly methods. <\/span>Will she find safety and a new way\u00a0 of living? Will she find love?<\/span><\/p>\n

The Elder Race<\/em><\/a> is not afraid to confront such difficult issues as over-population, dementia, self-sacrifice and euthanasia, all set within a heart-warming story of escape, survival and hope.<\/span><\/p>\n

For more information on The Elder Race<\/em>, endorsements and unsolicited responses, click on the image of the book cover. <\/span><\/p>\n

Published by Bellhouse Books<\/a>. T<\/span>o order a copy, please use the \"Contact Alwyn<\/a>\" link.<\/span><\/p>\n More info \u2192<\/a><\/div><\/div>

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April 2017<\/div>
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\"In<\/a><\/div>

\r\n\tIn the image: Portraits of Mediaeval Women<\/a>\r\n<\/h2>
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\r\n\tAuthor:<\/span> Alwyn Marriage<\/a><\/span>
\t\tGenre:<\/span> April 2017<\/a><\/span>
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This collection of poems brings to life women who, though they lived centuries ago, shared many of the hopes, thoughts and emotions that we experience today. A variety of formal and free verse styles of poetry is used to celebrate the love, courage and occasional defiance of real women. The book was published on 20 April 2017 by Indigo Dreams and was launched in Bergen in June 2017 at an international conference about the lives and writings of mediaeval women<\/a>. For more information, click on the image of the book cover.<\/p>\n

Published by Indigo Dreams<\/a>. To order a copy, please use the \"Contact Alwyn<\/a>\" link.<\/p>\n More info \u2192<\/a><\/div><\/div>

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March 2017<\/div>
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\"Rapeseed\"<\/a><\/div>

\r\n\tRapeseed<\/a>\r\n<\/h2>
\u00a310.00<\/span><\/span><\/div>
\r\n\tAuthor:<\/span> Alwyn Marriage<\/a><\/span>
\t\tGenre:<\/span> March 2017<\/a><\/span>
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Rapeseed<\/a> follows the story of Samantha, a bright young academic, investigating the psychology of the children of rape. However, Sam has a secret, and flashbacks throughout the novel explore how this affected her upbringing. With a serial rapist on the loose and Sam's own search for her father becoming more desperate, her personal and professional lives begin to overlap. Various new contacts enter Sam's life as her doubts about her work and her detective efforts increase, until she eventually finds herself in horrifying danger. Does anyone love her enough to save her from herself? \u2018Rapeseed\u2019 was shortlisted in the Cinnamon Novel Award, 2011.<\/p>\n

An admirer of Alwyn Marriage\u2019s poetry, I was very interested to go to the launch of her novel, Rapeseed, in York. It was clear from her presentation and reading that the book was meticulously researched and beautifully written.<\/em>
\nThe novel concerns Sam, a young woman researcher into the children resulting from rape and whether they might share certain characteristics. From the outset we learn that Sam also has a personal interest in the subject as her own mother was raped and she herself falls into the category of the \u2018rapeseed\u2019 of the title. Her mother never discussed this with her and the narrative, which becomes increasingly tense and gripping, is interspersed with diary entries from childhood onwards in which Sam expresses a desire to find her father.<\/em>
\nThe personal (and there is a very well-written sub plot of a long-running love affair which contrasts beautifully with the ugliness and violence of rape) becomes inseparable from the academic and the researcher keeps her own family history a secret from her professor as well as from the governor of Wandsworth Prison where she is given access to files, including that of her own father.<\/em>
\nWithout wishing to give away the plot, I found myself caught up in the narrative and anxious for the main character who puts herself in real danger when she finally puts the personal before the academic and secretly arranges to meet her mother\u2019s rapist in a lonely spot.<\/em>
\nI can highly recommend this book which is a real page-turner and also an intelligent investigation into rape and its wide-ranging consequences. The characterisation and dialogue are superb and the reader\u2019s interest is captured and sustained by a fast-moving narrative.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em>Carole Bromley
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Published by Stairwell Books<\/a>. To order a copy, please use the \"Contact Alwyn<\/a>\" link.<\/p>\n More info \u2192<\/a><\/div><\/div>

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2014<\/div>
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\"Notes<\/a><\/div>

\r\n\tNotes from a Camper Van<\/a>\r\n<\/h2>
\u00a310<\/span><\/span><\/div>
\r\n\tAuthor:<\/span> Alwyn Marriage<\/a><\/span>
\t\tGenre:<\/span> 2014<\/a><\/span>
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Poems that celebrate the outdoor life: camping, 'cycling, walking, swimming and even driving. For more information, click on the image of the book cover.<\/p>\n

Published by Bellhouse Books<\/a>. To order a copy, please use the \"Contact Alwyn<\/a>\" link.<\/p>\n More info \u2192<\/a><\/div><\/div>

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2012<\/div>
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\"festo:<\/a><\/div>

\r\n\tfesto: celebrating winter and Christmas<\/a>\r\n<\/h2>
\u00a38<\/span><\/span><\/div>
\r\n\tAuthor:<\/span> Alwyn Marriage<\/a><\/span>
\t\tGenre:<\/span> 2012<\/a><\/span>
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Poems from throughout the year, but with a special emphasis on Christmas and winter.<\/p>\n

Though unquestioningly devout, she's refreshingly unorthodox, irreverent, forthright.<\/em>
\nR V Bailey<\/p>\n

Excellent and engaging poems.<\/em> William Oxley<\/p>\n

Published by Oversteps Books<\/a>. To order a copy, please use the \"Contact Alwyn<\/a>\" link.<\/p>\n More info \u2192<\/a><\/div><\/div>

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2007<\/div>
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\"Touching<\/a><\/div>

\r\n\tTouching Earth<\/a>\r\n<\/h2>
\u00a38<\/span><\/span><\/div>
\r\n\tAuthor:<\/span> Alwyn Marriage<\/a><\/span>
\t\tGenre:<\/span> 2007<\/a><\/span>
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A collection of poems, arranged in five sections: Energy; Other lives; On being a woman; Open air; and the Christmas story.<\/p>\n

Six months after this book was published, Alwyn was invited to take over as Managing Editor of Oversteps. For more information, click on the image of the book cover.<\/p>\n

Published by Oversteps Books<\/a>. To order a copy, please use the \"Contact Alwyn<\/a>\" link.<\/p>\n More info \u2192<\/a><\/div><\/div>

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1998<\/div>
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\"Bible<\/a><\/div>

\r\n\tBible BEST<\/a>\r\n<\/h2>
\r\n\t\t\tGenre:<\/span> 1998<\/a><\/span>
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Bible BEST was published in 1998 to mark International Literacy Day. Politicians, church leaders, entertainers, writers and the faithful, including Tony Blair, Desmond Tutu, Susan Howatch, Cliff Richard, Ben Elton and Mo Mowlam, selected their favourite Bible passage and said why they had chosen it.<\/p>\n

Published by FTM<\/a>. Bible BEST is now out of print.<\/p>\n More info \u2192<\/a><\/div><\/div>

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1995<\/div>
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\"The<\/a><\/div>

\r\n\tThe People of God: A Royal Priesthood<\/a>\r\n<\/h2>
\u00a38 incl UK p&p<\/span><\/span><\/div>
\r\n\tAuthor:<\/span> Alwyn Marriage<\/a><\/span>
\t\tGenre:<\/span> 1995<\/a><\/span>
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Alwyn Marriage presents a vision of the Church as the priesthood of all believers, and argues that unless we take seriously the doctrine that all Christians are called to be priests, there is little future for the Church. She demonstrates how this inclusive vision was the basis of the Old Testament concept of God's chosen people, was restored through Jesus' calling of the first disciples and the mission of the early Church, and has been a recurring theme through reform movements ever since. For more information, click on the image of the book cover.<\/p>\n

Published by Darton, Longman and Todd<\/a>. To order a copy, please use the \"Contact Alwyn<\/a>\" link.<\/p>\n More info \u2192<\/a><\/div><\/div>

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1990<\/div>
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\"New<\/a><\/div>

\r\n\tNew Christian Poetry<\/a>\r\n<\/h2>
\r\n\t\t\tGenre:<\/span> 1990<\/a><\/span>
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For a while this anthology was Collins\u2019 best-selling book, and I still get requests for copies. Unfortunately I have none left, and the opportunity for a re-print was lost during the series of publishing takeovers in the 1990s. There are sometimes copies for sale on Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

However, in general, copies are now like gold-dust, so if you have one that you don\u2019t want, please let me know, so that I can pass it on to someone who does.<\/p>\n

Published by Collins (now HarperCollins)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Review by Thelma Laycock<\/strong> in the Leeds-based poetry magazine Aire<\/i>ings<\/b><\/i>, no 22:<\/span><\/p>\n

Refreshingly this anthology bursts upon the British poetry scene which seems to suffer from a dearth of Christian writing. Alwyn Marriage draws her collection together from two hundred poems chosen from eight and a half thousand received after publicising the anthology to churches and magazines worldwide.<\/span><\/p>\n

New Christian Poetry<\/i> is not a denominational \u2018churchy\u2019 collection. The editor presents the poetry in its widest sense, dividing it into eleven sections: The Natural World, Place, People, World Issues, Art, The Bible, Times and Festivals, Experience of God, On Being a Christian, Praise and Prayer, Bread and Wine, thus expressing that Christians are not apart from the world but are very much thrown into the turmoil of it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Memorable among the poems for me is Jean Naylor\u2019s \u2018Contemplation\u2019 (Experience of God) with its Hopkinsian imagery:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI saw Him in the crushed crimson\u2019s dawn appearing \u2026
\nHe comes riding
\nStallion-drawn, whirl-wheeled, fleet
\nSword-buckling King, re-armed in glory
\nI fall, love adoring at his feet.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Presenting a contrast to that is Rosie Watson\u2019s \u2018Red Nose Day\u2019 (World Issues) with its comic irony:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWould God wear a nose for such a cause
\nChrist the Clown
\nour fool for God\u2019s sake
\nthe only one
\nto wear a nose on red nose day
\n<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Good Friday
\nfor the sake of Ethiopia
\nYes, and much more.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Catherine Fisher closes the section on Art with her universal poem, \u2018Judas\u2019, in which the poet sees:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026 a roundel here of Christ in Hell,
\nembracing a man waist-deep in fiery glass
\nwhose medieval face turns up as if in shock \u2026
\nPerhaps it is something in the kiss that makes me
\nwonder, if they meant it to be you.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The poems in this collection have a very high standard and much could be said about the individual poems. I can only recommend that people buy it and read it. It is a good resource for worship and for teaching as well as for personal reflection. It is excellent and have not come across anything quite like it. I am glad to have this anthology on my bookshelves; it has presence.
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1989<\/div>
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\"Life-Giving<\/a><\/div>

\r\n\tLife-Giving Spirit: Responding to the feminine in God<\/a>\r\n<\/h2>
\r\n\t\t\tGenre:<\/span> 1989<\/a><\/span>
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This is an exploration of the femininity implicit in much of the language and imagery that has traditionally been used to describe the Holy Spirit. Resisting any attempt to down-grade the Holy Spirit, who is as much God as the other two members of the Trinity, I argued in this book that only if we take seriously both the femininity of the Spirit AND the centrality of that Spirit in our understanding of God can we fully appreciate the wholeness and holiness of God in Trinity. For more information, click on the image of the book cover.<\/p>\n

Published by SPCK<\/a>. To order a copy, please use the \"Contact Alwyn<\/a>\" link.<\/p>\n More info \u2192<\/a><\/div><\/div>

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1977<\/div>
<\/div><\/header>
\"Beautiful<\/a><\/div>

\r\n\tBeautiful Man<\/a>\r\n<\/h2>
\r\n\tAuthor:<\/span> Alwyn Marriage<\/a><\/span>
\t\tGenre:<\/span> 1977<\/a><\/span>
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A short collection of Alwyn Marriage's early poetry, including the fourteen part longer poem 'Epiphany'.<\/p>\n

Published by Outposts Publications. Currently out of print.<\/p>\n More info \u2192<\/a><\/div><\/div>

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