Star - Poems for the Christmas Season

Résumé du livre

STAR lights up Christmas. We journey through the collection as 'everyday Magi', encountering revelations, surprises and new insights. At the book's core are The Three Kings but also The Three Queens: women who are brought forward from behind the scenes, to be seen and heard. The poems illuminate a wide range of human experience - political power struggles; persecution and flight; the vulnerability of the innocent and of the planet - alongside celebration, wonder and friendship. And we hear some Irish, Welsh, Scots and Ulster-Scots, reflecting Angela's engagement with our indigenous languages. The star is an image of hope, fading and returning; sought for and found. This a poetic vision both forensic and lyrical, clear-eyed and compassionate, expressed succinctly in the poem, The Cost of Christmas: 'violence is not what saves the world'. STAR is illustrated by powerful and sensitive images from Martin Erspamer OSB.