What have Atheists, Christians and Muslims and all other categories in the human race got in common? Why - despite our shared humanity - do so many of us get involved in clashes about religion? And why do some of us even fight and kill each other? What do you understand by the world 'God'? Are humans the creatures of God or is 'God' the invention of mankind? How can we make sense of 'God' in a suffering world? And finally, why do we need to talk and listen to each other. The author considers these and many other questions posed by the menacing social and political breakdown in our fragile world 'community'.

Rex Andrews is a versatile poet, much-travelled scholar and creative teacher of language and literature whose poetry is constantly exploring different forms, styles, subjects and emotions. Words for all Seasons is dedicated to a barrister, a bishop and an editor of Punch. John Morthimer Q.C., the RT. Rev. Geoffrey Powell and writer Alan Coren were judges for the 1998 Cancer Research Campaign Competition. When they awarded the poem Spinning Jenny first prize of 3000 entries worldwide, their unexpected encouragement was the spur for writing the majority of poems in this anthology. Subsequent prize-winning poems include My War Effort (free verse), Way to the White House (Chaucerian roundel), Bon Appetite (extended Clerihew), Earth (rhyming stanzas), and The Silver Thread (Spenserian stanzas). Additionally in this anthology the sonnet, hauku, tanka, somonka, cinquain, villanelle, clerihew, sestina and threnody are all represented - their styles ranging from comic to tragic, from satiric to elegiac and from parodic to poignant.

Tom's story takes place against the background of war-torn London with it's air raids, doodlebugs, barrage balloons, blackouts and rationing. There is humour and sadness, treachery and friendship, historical fact and spooky fiction entwined in the closely woven plot of Printer's Devil "Beautifully conceived and written...especially for those who like mysteries." The School Librarian "A gripping read..." Sarah Lawson

What have Atheists, Christians and Muslims and all other categories in the human race got in common? Why - despite our shared humanity - do so many of us get involved in clashes about religion? And why do some of us even fight and kill each other? What do you understand by the word 'God'? Are humans the creatures of God or is 'God' the invention of mankind? How can we make sense of 'God' in a suffering world? And finally, why do we need to talk and listen to each other.

The author considers these and many other questions posed by the menacing social and political breakdown in our fragile world 'community'.

..".a very welcome contribution to one of the most overheated and often least understood debates in our culture." - Dr Rowan Williams

"Refreshingly open, honest and direct. The author knows the difference between mystery and mystification. I would happily recommend this book to my students." - Rabbi Lionel Blue

"In this lively, sane and vivid book, Rex Andrews casts light on real spirituality and reveals the truth behind the obscurities of dogmatism." - Jonathan Sale

"The author knows that God is beyond words, but this brief guide clears away much of the fog that surrounds the deity and leaves a fresh space for Faith." - Roger Bolton