This major new
poetry collection from bestselling poet and priest Malcolm Guite features
more than seventy new and previously unpublished works.
At the heart of this collection is a sequence of twenty seven sonnets
written in response to George Herbert’s exquisite sonnet ‘Prayer’, each one
describing prayer in an arresting metaphor such as ‘the church’s banquet’,
‘reversed thunder’, ‘the Milky Way’, ‘the bird of paradise’ and ‘something
understood’. In conversation with each of these, Malcolm’s sonnets offer
profound insights into the nature of communion with God in all circumstances
and conditions.
Recognising that all poetry is a pursuit of prayer, After Prayer also
includes forty five more widely ranging new poems, including a sonnet
sequence on the seven heavens. |
