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Songs of the Darkness: Poems for Christmas
Lawrence Sail
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Description for Songs of the Darkness: Poems for Christmas
Paperback.
Songs of the Darkness brings together a selection of poems for Christmas written over a period of more than thirty years. They are notable for their combination of a close focus and breadth, and for the way in which the seasonal is celebrated alongside the challenges of history and the beauty of the natural world. topographically the poems range from a Romanian convent to a Devon beach to an alpine cablecar. The finely drawn illustrations by Erica Sail, the writer's daughter, add their own note of precision and detail. Taken together with the poems, they help to ... Read more
Songs of the Darkness brings together a selection of poems for Christmas written over a period of more than thirty years. They are notable for their combination of a close focus and breadth, and for the way in which the seasonal is celebrated alongside the challenges of history and the beauty of the natural world. topographically the poems range from a Romanian convent to a Devon beach to an alpine cablecar. The finely drawn illustrations by Erica Sail, the writer's daughter, add their own note of precision and detail. Taken together with the poems, they help to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Enitharmon Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
48
Condition
New
Number of Pages
48
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781904634980
SKU
V9781904634980
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Ref
99-50
About Lawrence Sail
Lawrence Sail has been chairman of the Arvon Foundation and has directed the Cheltenham Festival of Literature. The recipient of a Cholmondeley Award and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he has published nine collections of poems, most recently Eye-Baby (Bloodaxe Books, 2006). In 2005 Enitharmon published a book of his essays, Cross-currents. He has edited ... Read more
Reviews for Songs of the Darkness: Poems for Christmas
'Lawrence Sail's poetry is beautifully pictorial, evocative and deeply thoughtful. He writes of the presence of God with us, light in our darkness. I am glad that this collection will help to support the education of children in Africa.' ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU