Waiting on the Word

<p><span style=color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>Advent is a season of waiting and anticipation in which the waiting itself is strangely rich and fulfilling. Poetry can help us fathom the depths of Advent's many paradoxes: dark and light emptiness and fulfilment ancient and ever new.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>For every day from Advent Sunday to Christmas Day and beyond the bestselling poet Malcolm Guite chooses a favourite poem from across the Christian spiritual and English literary traditions and offers incisive seasonal reflections on it. In the spirit of the season he blends the familiar and the new ranging from from spiritual classics such as Edmund Spenser John Donne George Herbert and Christina Rossetti to contemporary voices Luci Shaw and Scott Cairns. His own acclaimed sequence of sonnets for the great Advent antiphons are also included.</span></p>