The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse ed. by Kaveh Akbar

The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse ed. by Kaveh AkbarAn inspiring new selection of poems exploring faith and the divine, featuring poets from across the world, from antiquity to the present, compiled by renowned poet and author of Martyr!, Kaveh AkbarA Penguin ClassicPoets have always looked to the skies for inspiration, and have written as a way of getting closer to the power and beauty they sense in nature, in each other and in the cosmos. This anthology is a holistic and global survey of a lyric

throwing the Herons into a dangerous quest to free captured Araluans from the slave market in Socorro

and more uses basic shapes and techniques

subtle contribution to Australian poetry

will make me feel good' Hayley Maitland

Gordon Buchanan was the only one still living

But there are an awful lot of holes

'Even amongst the extraordinary body of one hundred poems that constitute the first volume of a new annual 'best of' series

I'd resolved to take my son into the woods every afternoon over winter

and Calcifer the fire demon

I believe the second you feel you have triumphed or overcome something - an abuse

Marcus Aurelius and others continue to be vitally relevant to today's doers and thinkers

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