From Shade to Shine: New Poems

This collection of poems begins in thegrowingdarknessof November, stretches throughAdvent andthe seasons leading toEaster and toPentecost,and ends in thebudding lightofthe Scottish Orkney Islands,where the canonical hours measure time over centuries and where God broods over an austere and beautiful landscape. The measurement of time passing and returning, year after year, in the rhythms of theseasons and of theliturgicalyear, create the paceandthe song. Butin the biblical voices of Magdale...