James Harpur's new collection of poems, A Hidden Silence
A vision of comets that turn to golden Hebrew letters; waiting on a mountain top to see the Perseids; sitting by a sister’s death bed: these are poems of revelation, but also of human warmth and connection. A sense of wonder becomes a way of seeing the sacred in the everyday, and of finding there the quietude of Julian of Norwich, Columcille, or St Ita — the ‘bright darkness of a hidden silence’.
‘The intensely moving poems in this compelling sequence explore the mysteries of death, love, silence and the tenuous “aperture between two worlds”. Moving between ancient and contemporary worlds, they show how we might look beyond the narrow cage of the ego and find a deeper sense of connection — with ourselves, with those we have lost, and with the mysteries that surround us.’
Patricia McCarthy
ISBN: 9781915968234
Poetry Pamphlet
28 pages
