Word in the Wilderness:A Poem a day for Lent and Easter

With a favourite poem from across the Christian spiritual and English literary traditions, this Lent and Easter resource offers incisive seasonal reflections for everyday of that spiritually challenging, uplifting and rewarding season. A scholar of poetry as well as a renowned poet himself, Malcolm Guite's knowledge is both deep and wide. Word in the Wilderness offers readers a soul-food feast for Lent, with material from classic and contemporary writers including George Herbert, John Donne, T S Eliot, Christina Rossetti, W H Auden, R S Thomas, Gerard Manley Hopkins and Thomas Hardy, as well as a selection of Malcolm Guite's own highly praised work.