Advent is celebrated when the year is becoming darker and colder,
moving into the death and dormancy of winter. Before we can greet
the coming of the light, we need to engage with some themes that
are challenging and occasionally fearful. Like the Magi who
travelled a long distance to search out and adore the infant Jesus,
and who took some wrong turns on the way, we too have a journey to
undertake before we find that we have 'Walked haphazard by
starlight straight Into the kingdom of heaven.' U. A. Fanthorpe,
BC:AD Haphazard by Starlight is a companion volume to Janet
Morley's bestselling Lent book, The Heart's Time (SPCK, 2011),
which delighted readers with its thoughtfully chosen selection of
poems and its biblically sensitive commentaries. Here, the reader
is given an opportunity to engage in a pilgrimage of the heart,
through Advent and Christmas to the feast of the Epiphany. Each day
- from 1 December to 6 January - offers a poem (sometimes
explicitly Christian, often not) and an accessible commentary that
is both critically informed and devotional in intent. The poets
represented include Rowan Williams, Elizabeth Jennings, Edwin Muir,
Philip Larkin, Jane Kenyon, Gillian Clarke, George Herbert, T. S.
Eliot, Sylvia Plath, Emily Dickinson, Waldo Williams, P. J.
Kavanagh, Ruth Fainlight, William Blake and many more.
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