This Heart

Poems from the universe inside

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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Poems that arrive like gentle reminders that life is happening — right now, right here — and it’s trying to tell you something.Following the quiet cult success of Julian of Norwich’s Teabag — described by Bono in the New York Times as his ‘favourite book no one’s heard of’ — poet and broadcaster Martin Wroe returns with this luminous new collection. His work bridges the spiritual and the secular with the grace of someone who’s not trying to win an argument — it just tells the truth beautifully and often makes you laugh along the way.This breath that calls to stillnessThis heart that holds a universeThis fleeting understandingThat both are still expandingEvery day is a poem. The trees bowing to each other in the breeze. The cyclist pedalling through the air. That song about you on the radio. A robin waiting for you to answer her question. A loved one whose life is disappearing. Poem or prayer, psalm or song, all the same exercise in getting silence to cough up some truth. Every day is a poem. And everyone we meet. This heart does not existThis heart is a metaphorThis heart is a poemThe truest thing of all

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2025-05-21
Mått140 x 200 x 12 mm
Vikt192 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor140
FörlagWild Goose Publications
ISBN9781804323823

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Martin Wroe lives with Meg, a painter, in North London where they find life in an eccentric community located around a small church. A former staff writer on The Independent and The Observer and a chair of the Greenbelt Arts Festival, Martin is an associate member of the Iona Community, contributes to BBC Radio 4’s Thought for the Day, and is the author of Julian of Norwich’s Teabag. He was late to realise that religions are poems and now tries to make one every day.

THIS HEARTThis heart 10This heart that holds a universe 11This now Terra Divina (William Blake remix) 14Robin 15Blackbird 15 Swallow 16 Parliament 16 And also with you 17Nature poem 18 Iceberg 19I never knew 20 Glorious weather 21 The end of myself 22 Surround sound 23 Tent 24This here It arrives 28 Noises off 29Pane 30Location 31 Now 32‘Vast new reserves discovered’ 33 Grumbling 35Here’s the thing 36Everyday election 37 No charge 38 Rhythm with blues 39 Detectorist 40Each day 41You are being held in a queue 42 This love Everyone a candle 46 First person (Poem on Mother’s Day) 47Old friends 48Call the midwife 50 My third marriage 51 If you liked this … 53Being there 54Who’s Elvis? 55Legacy 56Assemble 57I would love to live 58This way Prayer heard outside court at the immigration hearing 62 The repair shop 63On guard 64Out in the back 65 The squeeze 66 Bubble 67Product recall 68 Thoughts and prayers 69Sink 70Poem started on a birthday 71Taking my prayers for a walk 72This story Tradition 74 Fear not 75The book 76Gazing at a star (Christmas poem) 77Ring out the old 78Spiritual not religious 79 Epiphany 80How to become an insider 81Forty (Poem in Lent) 83easter revolution 84Church noticeboards 86 Priest 87Retreat 89The day the weeks meet 90More 92This end A quiet word 94 Elastic snap 96Spring 97Taking mum to the doctor 97 Hazardous 98One in the morning 99 Home from home 100My back has gone 102Affronted 103What are we going to do? 104 Unlock 105Lowering 106Same seat as you 107Seven blessings when you lose someone you love (A funeral poem) 108 Alive 110Scattering 111The light we shared (A parting poem) 112Fall 113Gone 113Sign of the peace 114This home Life writing 116 Catch 116Why the rule? 117Stand 118Candle 119Warmth 120The fix 120Guidance 121This is a poem about death 122 Almost nothing 123Life, a customer satisfaction survey 124Call it 126Psalm 23 (remix) 127(Psalm for a) home 128Listen now! 129Thankful 130This life (Some afterwords) 131Sources and acknowledgements 137