When people prayed, they expected their gods to come, wrote Robin Lane Fox, providing the impetus for this volume of collected essays exploring the concept of how the ancients "envisioned" the deities within various ancient religious traditions. The perspectives of Judaism, Gnosticism, Syriac Christianity, Byzantium, and Classical Greco-Roman religion and philosophy are considered. Specific emphasis is given to phenomena such as dreams, visions, and initiatory rites mediating the divine encounter.

This poetry book is dedicated to Joy Quigley and all the children and staff in the Royal Victoria Hospital for sick children, Belfast, and the workers in charity shops throughout the world.

John's third book - if you're new to his art, this is the book for you; if you are familiar with his art, this is certainly the book for you. Political, social and personal conscience are second nature to this poet. He was not trained in the art of poetry, he did not need it - his poetical voice comes as natural to him as breathing. He does not have to think about it, it simply exists.

A second, and hopefully not last, from this crusader of personal, political and social truths who is John Mc Guckin. His style unchanged - telling it to your face if rudely, if romantically, if feather-soft. He calls it a hobby, well probably it is one, yet more than a hobby - it is a gift.

John Mc Guckin's work is anchored deep in the realities of life: personal, social, political. His opinions on each of these subjects are clearly (sometimes even roughly) expressed, there is no subject that his pen considers taboo. And yet, you can sense there, beneath all these worldly layers - the dreamer. In his ever present melancholic, soft poetry.