Janet Morley is a freelance writer, speaker and workshop leader. She has worked for Christian Aid and for the Methodist Church, and is the author of several books of prayers and poems, including All Desires Known, Bread of Tomorrow, The Heart's Times, Haphazard by Starlight and Our Last Awakening.
Varied, beautiful, provocative and nurturing.
*The Times*
Morley has a wonderful turn of phrase herself and her commentaries
are beautiful, insightful, and encouraging of a prayerful and
personal response. I think this deserves to become a classic and
will repay many readings.
*Methodist Recorder*
Like the Psalms, the poetry is as much rooted in life experience as
in piety, and the variety of authors ensures it is no narrow vein
of spirituality which is bin promoted. Through wonderful reading
notes, Janet Morley opens doors for discerning and reluctant
readers of poetry alike.
*John Bell of the Iona Community*
I think this is a brilliant Lent book, and one I would use. It is a
marvellous anthology, but it offers so much more: critical insight
into the poems, cultural and theological insight into their
spiritual resonances and guidance as to how to read them
prayerfully.
*Angela Tilby, writer and broadcaster*
Morley takes a poem, interprets it and applies it, marking a
pilgrimage of the heart . . . each interpretation making me feel as
if I was gently taken apart and remade anew.
*Church Times*
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