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Love, Remember

40 poems of loss, lament and hope

Love, Remember

40 poems of loss, lament and hope

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Hardback

£18.99

Publisher: Canterbury Press Norwich
ISBN: 9781786225528
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 30/11/2017
Width: 14 cm
Height: 21.6 cm

The bestselling poet Malcolm Guite chooses forty poems from across the centuries that express the universal experience of loss and reflects on them in order to draw out the comfort, understanding and hope they offer.

Some of the poems will be familiar, many will be new, but together they provide a sure companion for the journey across difficult terrain. Some of Malcolm’s own poetry is included, written out of his work as a priest with the dying and the bereaved and giving to the volume a powerful authenticity.

The choice of forty poems is significant and reflects an ancient practice still observed in some European and Middle Eastern societies of taking extra-special care of a bereaved person in the forty days following a death – our word quarantine come from this. They explore the nature and the risk of love, the pain of letting go and look toward glimpses of resurrection.

Malcolm Guite

Malcolm Guite is Chaplain of Girton College, Cambridge. A performance poet and singer/songwriter, he lectures widely on poetry and theology in Britain and the US.

'The most wonderful anthology of poetry I have ever come across in my life.' -- Methodist Recorder