Poetry is one of those forces that brings to the light hidden, inner dimensions of our earthly journey. Like a polished diamond, poetry has many facets, many faces, and reflects the light in multiple ways.

Star Fall in a Midnight Sky is Denham Grierson’s sixth book of poetry, exploring and celebrating, in multiple ways, the enigma of our existence. The poems seek to bring moments of illumination, clarification of the depths of the ordinary, realisation of what we know but cannot tell.

These poems are fragile, wonderful and beautiful because they take us into the heart of human frailty, awe and desire, where war, illness, plague and age all threaten to steal life away. But the elusive presence of that which is beyond and beneath all remains. We share in the chemistry of eternity. From the Foreword by Andy Tiver

Theologian and educator Denham Grierson wrote his first poems for his school magazine. Those beginnings led into an exploration of poetry over a thirty years teaching career within the United Faculty of Theology and at the University of Melbourne.