Sounding Heaven & Earth - A Poet's Corner Collection By Malcolm Guite

This book offers more than seventy reflections that create momentary pauses in the bustle of life to take soundings, to savour an experience and hold it for a moment to the light before it slips away and ask, 'Are there some hidden depths here?'

The soundings here sometimes delight in sound itself: in words, in music, in bells and birdsong. They bask in the sheer pleasure of books and of listening as authors and poets talk across the ages, sounding one another out. Others are soundings of the seasons as they contemplate the rhythms of the Christian year - Christmas and Candlemas, the srdours of Lent and the joys of Easter - and the turning of the natural seasons with their pleasures and perils of our changing weather.

Other sounds mark arrivals and departures: bells across the nation sounding the passing of the late Queen and heralding a new King, the softer chimes that mark the loss of treasured friends. Running throughout is a quiet undersong of wonder and gratitude that may find echo in our own lives as we attune our ears and sound the depths of our own experiences.

76 pages   paperback    12.5 x 19.5cm