Enables those who have been bereaved to express their thoughts and feelings.
Mark Oakley is Canon Chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral. He was formerly Rector of St Paul's, Covent Garden, then Archdeacon of Germany and Northern Europe, and subsequently priest-in-charge of the Grosvenor Chapel in Mayfair, London. He is the author of The Collage of God (DLT, 2001), and compiler of Readings for Weddings (SPCK, 2004).
This book will be a great help and a real comfort to anyone going
through a difficult time in their life – something that happens to
us all sooner or later.
*Dame Judi Dench*
Mark Oakley is highly regarded as a writer, speaker and broadcaster
on issues of faith, poetry and literature:
It is extremely unusual to meet anyone who isn’t a specialist who
has such a subtle feeling for language.
*Sir Andrew Motion, Former Poet Laureate*
An exceptionally wide-ranging collection of verse, including some
standard favourites, but much that is less well-known: Vera Arlett
and Alden Nowlan for example, but also including poems in
translation (Quevedo, Kaplinski, Hitomaro). The poems and short
reflections are sandwiched between a collection of 46 suggested
hymns, making this a book that any lay person could use to start
planning a funeral. My only concern is that many of these poems
would have to be read aloud by someone experienced at public
speaking, or their impact will be lost.
*The Reader*
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