This is an anthology which offers the reader a poem for each day of Lent, Holy Week and Easter, together with a short reflection of 700-800 words which open out that particular poem, and set it in context. The book is shaped, over all by the theme of an accompanied journey through the wilderness with Christ, and has sections on pilgrimage, on prayer as conversation on the journey, and on the poets we read as fellow pilgrims. The poetry itself is drawn from a wide range of sources, from Dante to our own contemporaries.

 

The book could be used either privately as a devotional inner journey, just read at home each day, or the journey could be shared as a group, and this indeed is how it began.

Title: Word in the Wilderness: A Poem a Day for Lent and Easter

Author: Ed by Malcolm Guite

ISBN: 9781848256781

Publisher: Canterbury Press

Date: 2014