When the Earth Falls

Abdul Hai

£9.95

When the Earth Falls is a powerful and deeply personal collection of poetry exploring faith, identity, loss, injustice, and the search for meaning in a fractured world. Inspired by the richness of Arabic poetic tradition, Abdul Hai’s poems speak with honesty, conviction and compassion.

Towards Hope

Eleanor Nesbitt

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Eleanor Nesbitt’s poems invite you, often whimsically, to find poetry in every situation – yes, literally. Plants, animals, the past and the future, illness and bereavement, global issues, as well as the transformative power of places, have all precipitated her poems. So too have the experience of being a Quaker and the mystery of mediating poems – some serious, some less so.

Glimpses

Ron Geaves

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Glimpses is a journey across time, faith, and imagination. From owls who cannot see the sun to parrots who know everything but cannot fly, from the lives of prophets and mystics to the stillness of prayer, Ron Geaves weaves parable, reflection, and lyrical meditation into poems that ask what it means to truly see, to know, and to believe. Moving between deserts and churches, rivers and shrines, these poems capture brief moments of clarity and insight, offering readers a chance to look again at the world and its deeper meaning.

Ron Geaves is a retired professor of religion whose travels across the Eastern world have been a lasting source of inspiration. Best known for his academic work on Islam in Britain, he held Chairs in Religion at Chester and Liverpool Hope and remains a visiting professor at Cardiff University. His works include Sufis in Britain (2000), Islam Today (2010), and Sufis of Britain (2014). His biography of Abdullah Quilliam (2010) brought him to wider attention. Alongside his scholarship, he has long written poetry, first performing with the Leeds Poetry Group in the 1980s. After retiring to Pembrokeshire, he returned to writing and performance with the Cellar Bards. Beacon Books published his collection Rumi Weeds in 2017 and his memoir (forthcoming).

Apprenticed to the Night

LindaAnn LoSchiavo

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Apprenticed to the Night is a collection of poetry that treats mortality, betrayal, memory, trauma, and the bewilderment of loss as constantly shifting enigmas. It explores themes of life, death, childhood, trauma, family, and love.

The book is divided into three sections: Youth, Maturity and Beyond. It is a powerful and moving collection of poetry that is honest, insightful, and beautifully written.

Singularities

Paul Mein

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Wide ranging in their coverage, from the glory of the natural world around us to the “idiosyncrasies, harsh realities and joys of everyday living. This glorious collection of poems are well worth visiting as they provide much food for thought for the philosophical reader.

The Benediction of Yellow

Shirley Bell

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The poems speak about the power of landscape, storytelling, myth and the darker side of fairy tales, along with current issues. She has a strong spiritual sense which is expressed in her religious poems.

Because her writing echoes the experiences of many others, readers will identify with the work and find solace. There are many other poems which intrigue and entertain, and all the poems are strong, vivid and rich in imagery and description.

Chopping Wood

Stephen Philp

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Chopping Wood is unashamedly political, religious and spiritual, anti- secular, psychologically nuanced, social and environmental, scientifically critical, while remaining compassionate. One could go so far as to say that it challenges reality.

One of its major themes is the tension between the public and the private, for which Philp often uses the metaphor of the urban and the rural. As well as being driven by spiritual and political yearnings, his poetry involves itself with the day-to-day. So love, walking the dog, responding to nature and the seasons, chatting with friends, observing what goes on in the street or the country lane are all included.