Packed with riches yet highly accessible, The Heart's Time is at its
core a series of short, resonant poems for each weekday of Lent and
Easter. It will appeal to existing poetry lovers as well as those who
want to start exploring how poems can be a resource for our spiritual
lives, whether or not they are written with a consciously Christian
intent. Poets often address subjects our culture seeks to avoid, and
poetry demands that we 'slow down to the heart's time' in order to
discover deeper levels of meaning than at first appear.
Janet Morley offers her own skilful and reflective commentaries on a
fascinating themed sequence of both familiar and unexpected poems,
including works by Margaret Atwood, St Augustine, Charles Causley, E. E.
Cummings, Emily Dickinson, Carol Ann Duffy, Ruth Fainlight, U. A.
Fanthorpe, Robert Frost, Seamus Heaney, George Herbert, Elizabeth
Jennings, Denise Levertov, Roger McGough, Adrienne Rich, Christina
Rossetti, R. S. Thomas and Rowan Williams.