This Transfigured Chapel of the Threads: Poems - Softcover

Law, Sarah

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798385204199

Publisher: Resource Publications, 2023

Synopsis

These short poems, one hundred in number, meditate on religious life, its patterns of deep darkness and gleaming light. Sarah Law has been inspired by the Carmelite nun Saint Thérèse of Lisieux (1873–97) for many years and in this collection blurs the borders of self and saint. The poems follow a loosely chronological and biographical trajectory, drawing on sparks of image and memory. The resulting work is intimate, lyrical, and innovative, and by turns dreamlike, confessional, passionate, and poignant. The whole forms a chapel from poetic threads and fragments of faith.

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About the Author

Sarah Law is an associate lecturer for the Open University and elsewhere. She has published six previous poetry collections, including Therese: Poems (2020), and a novel, Sketches from a Sunlit Heaven (Wipf and Stock, 2022), winner of an Illumination Book Awards Silver Medal. She edits the online journal Amethyst Review, for new writing engaging with the sacred, editing and publishing occasional collections and anthologies under Amethyst Press. She lives in Norwich in the UK.

Edition details

• Publisher: Resource Publications
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798385204199
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 124