Poetry is to theology, As rain is to cloud,
A foundational essence.
These opening lines from the author’s poem Protector recall for us the motivation, the purpose and the insights that inspire the new collection of poems in this volume. The poems – like the author’s previous collections – also remind us that here is a poet who combines rare gifts of theology and faith to see beyond any focused tradition to discover the gifts and purposes of God in the daily experiences of life and nature.
The everyday experiences are immediately reflected in the titles of the poems. They are about life and loss, family and friendship, hope and despair, encounter and healing. They reflect the depth of the ordinary, the mystery of the everyday, the invitation to engage, consider, respond.
Savour, enjoy, be surprised, challenged, enlightened. Accept his invitation to become his companion in travelling. – Peter Sanders, Foreword.
Denham Grierson, a retired Uniting Church Minister, first had poems printed in his school magazine. Over the years in his writings and speaking engagements the occasional poem appeared, but only in retirement from thirty years of tertiary teaching, and forty years of ministry, has the time been available to focus on poetry, that access into the depths of our lives, as Denham describes it. There is still time for golf, family, and travel but they too are resources for writing poems.
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| Author | Denham Grierson |
| Publication Date | 1st July 2024 |
| Imprint | Coventry Press |
| ISBN | 9781922589507 |
Echoes in a Sunlit Gorge
- Authors Denham Grierson
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