Poetry

Christians throughout the ages have written poetry as a way to commune with and teach about God, communicating rich truths and enduring beauty thro...

John Donne's description of the Psalms celebrates not only the perfection of the biblical psalms but their translation into poetic form by the Sidn...

St Columba, or Columcille, and the island of Iona are the inspiration for James Harpur in this book of delicate lyric poems. Delving into the stori...

This deeply personal and at times haunting collection of poems reflects the search for God in the pain and vulnerability of life, in human relation...

Like electricity, the word of God is a living force – an energy source that feeds and enables us. The Electric Gospel is an inspired collection of ...

A book of poems for public worship or personal reflection. Like electricity, Holy Scripture, which illuminates and enables us, also shocks when it ...

These inspirational poems reflect Peggy Shriver's close and careful observation of both natural and social/political events. They move beyond the s...

The act of writing poetry, for Sofia Starnes, is a “getting out of the way” so that a poem might occur, a poem that must itself become a place of r...

These poems remind us that “home” is a way of being in this world. It finds expression in the inner light that carries us through dark seasons and ...

The Book of Iona shows how novelists, poets, saints and sinners over the centuries have written about one of the worldÕs most famous and best loved...

The Book of Common Courage is a collection of prayers, poems, and blessings to help you find a flicker of strength in the small and hard moments of...

Several years before he converted to Christianity, C. S. Lewis published a narrative poem, Dymer, under the pseudonym Clive Hamilton. Later, of cou...

A rare glimpse of a young C. S. Lewis. Spirits in Bondage reveals the earliest published thoughts of C. S. Lewis. However, we find an unfamiliar L...

A collection of poetry by writers involved in the justice and peace spirituality of the Iona Community.

These striking and memorable poems are contemporary reworkings of an ancient collection of poetic texts, the Psalms. The Psalms are noted as much f...

In recent years the poetry of St Gregory has gained admirers for its verbal artistry, rich theology, and psychological insight. Moreover, the Theol...

God’s eternal redemptive plan came to fruition in the events of a tumultuous handful of days. In the two thousand years since, believers have sough...

Spring is a wonderful time of year to consider where we are in our journey through life. Not only do we have the amazing sacrifice and promise of E...

Summer, long days of fruitful warmth and cheerful birdsong, sometimes punctuated by holidays and time to reflect.Mary writes, 'This collection of p...

Autumn, season of Harvest, colourful leaves and misty mornings. A time to remember and a time to prepare.Mary writes, 'This collection of poems and...

Jacob of Serug was born at Curtem on the Euphrates, ca. 451. Very little is known of his life. He probably studies at the school of Edessa. He beca...

God is at work among us. The “kingdom of God”—that dynamic, active power that breaks in to the hardest of hearts and places—is on the move. And how...

George Herbert is one of the great 17th century poet-priests. His poems embrace every shade of the spiritual life, from love and closeness, to ange...

The opening words of Sylvia PlathÕs poem for her newborn daughter are true of each one of us. Love is fundamental to our being, our growth, our dev...

Love in Thin Places is a new collection of poems by David Grieve, a chaplain at Durham Cathedral. With him we walk around the building that is both...

In Keep Watching for Kingfishers, Jenny Wilson places the stories of scripture alongside stories found in the news, in poetry and in well-known nov...

Succeeding Ronald Blythe's Word From Wormingford, one of the most beloved columns in contemporary journalism, was always going to be a formidable c...

In Dulci Jubilo (in Sweet Rejoicing) is a beautiful traditional carol that inspired Mary's Christmas piece of 2019 and this book.Mary writes, 'The ...

"Loren Wilkinson is best known among most of us for his passionate, life-long care for the earth--the literal earth. The soil-and-flower, river-and...

Devotional poems and inspiring paintings A collection of beautiful poems to comfort and inspire hope and trust in the future - for all those who fa...

Christmas Carols are one of the most familiar aspects of Christianity, instantly recognisable to church-goers and others alike. Over the years many...

From Yehuda Amichai and W. H. Auden to Phyllis Wheatley and Walt Whitman, Hearing God in Poetry invites you to take a closer look at fifty great po...

Award-winning author and retired Salvation Army minister, Howard Webber, brings us a treasury of original poems for Christmas. As he brilliantly ca...

Prayer is a strange thing. Simple yet profound. How does it work? We don't know. But God hears and loves us to talk to Him and to sit in His presen...

Luci Shaw is now 90 years old. The author of more than 35 collections of poetry and creative non-fiction over the last five decades, she describes ...

As well as the name of a virus, a corona is a crown, the pearly glow around the sun in certain astronomical conditions and a poetic form where inte...

This collection of poems, created by Bradford Cathedral's Poet in Residence during its centenary year, explores the changing place of the Church in...