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Stations of the Resurrection offers reflections on each of these episodes from the bestselling poet Malcolm Guite and the much admired writer and bishop, Guli Francis-Dehqani, accompanied by colour illustrations from the priest-artist Iain McKillop.Bishop Guli draws on her first hand knowledge of Middle Eastern culture to explore these stories and Malcolm Guite offers a sonnet in response to each of them – many published here for the first time - with reflections on the texts that inspired them.This imaginative and inspirational resource also includes the complete Stations of the Resurrection liturgies from Common Worship Times and Seasons that commemorate each of the nineteen events, allowing the book to be used for both personal devotional use and liturgical celebration.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56303322857845,"sku":"9781781404539","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781781404539_fd33101c-3cc8-4c36-bfcb-452b265ba9bf.jpg?v=1786025939"},{"product_id":"9781781404577","title":"Reflections for Daily Prayer Advent 2024 to Christ the King 2025","description":"Reflections for Daily Prayer continues to be one of the most popular and highly valued daily Bible reading companions. Continuing its tradition of excellence, regular favourites and new contributors offer insightful, informed and inspiring reflections on the scripture readings of the day, based on the Common Worship lectionary for Morning Prayer. David Ford is the guest contributor for Holy Week. New voices this year include Gregory Cameron, the Bishop of St Asaph and author of the popular An Advent Book of Days and An Easter Book of Days; Chine MacDonald, author, broadcaster and Director of the religious think tank Theos; and Emma Parker, Deputy Warden of Cranmer Hall, Durham. For every day (excluding Sundays) of the 2024-25 church year, there are full references and a quotation from the day’s set of Scripture readings, concise and challenging commentary, and a collect. Also included is a simple order for Morning and Night Prayer, and additional helps for nurturing a habit of regular daily prayer.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56303430697333,"sku":"9781781404577","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781781404577_aa3db780-3c3d-4b63-9b26-284c0c8048ac.jpg?v=1786025940"},{"product_id":"9781786222107","title":"After Prayer","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis major new poetry collection from bestselling poet and priest Malcolm Guite features more than seventy new and previously unpublished works.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt the heart of this collection is a sequence of twenty seven sonnets written in response to George Herbert’s exquisite sonnet 'Prayer', each one describing prayer in an arresting metaphor such as ‘the church's banquet’, ‘reversed thunder’, ‘the Milky Way’, ‘the bird of paradise’ and ‘something understood’. In conversation with each of these, Malcolm’s sonnets offer profound insights into the nature of communion with God in all circumstances and conditions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRecognising that all poetry is a pursuit of prayer, \u003cem\u003eAfter Prayer\u003c\/em\u003e also includes forty five more widely ranging new poems, including a sonnet sequence on the seven heavens.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56304724312437,"sku":"9781786222107","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781786222107_eff99ed4-a40a-464a-8cb3-97641b30e3b3.jpg?v=1786026122"},{"product_id":"9781786225634","title":"Sounding the Seasons enlarged edition","description":"Poetry has always been a central element of Christian spirituality and is used in worship, in pastoral services and guided meditation. In Sounding the Seasons, Cambridge poet and priest Malcolm Guite transforms lectionary readings into lucid, inspiring poems, for use in regular worship, seasonal services, meditative reading or on retreat.This second edition includes further sonnets for the Christian year written since the original edition, including a sequence of 19 sonnets on the resurrection appearances recorded in scripture. Immediate, striking, simple yet profound, Malcolm Guite’s poetry resonates deeply and widely across the churches of all traditions throughout the English speaking world.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56304724443509,"sku":"9781786225634","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781786225634_b7641dcc-3bcc-44d3-a854-44e2ed0fdade.jpg?v=1786026148"},{"product_id":"9781786220011","title":"Love, Remember","description":"The bestselling poet Malcolm Guite chooses forty poems from across the centuries that express the universal experience of loss and reflects on them in order to draw out the comfort, understanding and hope they offer. Some of the poems will be familiar, many will be new, but together they provide a sure companion for the journey across difficult terrain. Some of Malcolm’s own poetry is included, written out of his work as a priest with the dying and the bereaved and giving to the volume a powerful authenticity. The choice of forty poems is significant and reflects an ancient practice still observed in some European and Middle Eastern societies of taking extra-special care of a bereaved person in the forty days following a death – our word quarantine come from this. They explore the nature and the risk of love, the pain of letting go and look toward glimpses of resurrection.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56305544036725,"sku":"9781786220011","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781786220011_1c0d3229-0083-4166-a7d0-6374040234b4.jpg?v=1786026102"},{"product_id":"9781848258594","title":"Parable and Paradox","description":"\u003cp\u003eSince the publication of the bestselling Sounding the Seasons, Malcolm Guite has repeatedly been asked for more sonnets. This new collection offers a sequence of 50 sonnets that focus on many passages in the Gospels: the Beatitudes, parables and miracles, teachings on the Kingdom, and the ‘hard sayings’ - Jesus’ challenging demands with which we wrestle.  In addition this collection includes:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA sequence of five sonnets on 'The Wilderness', exploring mysterious stories of divine encounter such as Jacob’s wrestling with the angel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoetic reflections on music, hospitality and ecology.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeven short poems celebrating the days of creation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA biblical index pairing the poems with scripture readings for use in worship.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56307885474165,"sku":"9781848258594","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781848258594_9e6fd97e-a907-4289-998b-1b5e38e568e8.jpg?v=1786033990"},{"product_id":"9781848255418","title":"The Singing Bowl","description":"Malcolm Guite’s eagerly awaited second poetry collection includes poems that seek beauty and transfiguration in the everyday; sonnets inspired by Francis and other outstanding saints; poems centred on love, parting and mortality. A further group, ‘Word and World’, searches for the life of the spirit in the midst of modernity and includes an ode to an iPhone, while others wrestle with the problem of evil and the difficulty of prayer. Throughout, the poet seeks to celebrate the world of which he is made, find heaven in the ordinary and echo a little of its music.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56308440531317,"sku":"9781848255418","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781848255418_93b71b9b-0593-4845-8068-b427f51e9eb4.jpg?v=1786033989"},{"product_id":"9781913657383","title":"My Theology","description":"My Theology:The world’s leading Christian thinkers explain some of the principal tenets of their theological beliefs.The Word within the words is a Poet’s Credo, in which Malcolm Guite describes how his Christian faith informs and underpins his poetry, and in turn how poetry itself, and more widely the poetic imagination, helps him to understand and interpret his faith.Illustrating his account with personal stories and poetry – both his own and classics from the canon – Guite explains a guiding theology of Christ as the Word, the essential logos that underlies all things, made flesh for us in Jesus. He then demonstrates how Scripture, Liturgy and Sacrament can each be understood as a poetry capable of transfiguring our vision and transforming our lives.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56308829127029,"sku":"9781913657383","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]},{"product_id":"9781781403952","title":"Reflections for Daily Prayer Advent 2023 to Christ the King 2024","description":"\u003cp\u003eReflections for Daily Prayer continues to be one of the most popular and highly valued daily Bible reading companions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContinuing its tradition of excellence, regular favourites and new contributors offer insightful, informed and inspiring reflections on the scripture readings of the day, based on the Common Worship lectionary for Morning Prayer. 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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.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56313067372917,"sku":"9781848258006","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781848258006_545c3e6a-d20c-44f5-a990-9834d536713e.jpg?v=1786029076"},{"product_id":"9781786226891","title":"Wardrobes and Rings","description":"\u003cp\u003eJourney through Lent with the insight and imagination of the Oxford Inklings - a group of writers who reshaped Christian thought and storytelling in the twentieth century. Drawing on the work of some of the Inklings' most well-known members, C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. 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Weekly themes such as temptation, time, nature and creativity guide the way.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten by Julia Golding, Malcolm Guite and Simon Horobin: a novelist, a poet-priest, and an Oxford professor all deeply immersed in the Inklings' world and wisdom, Wardrobes and Rings invites you to rediscover Lent through the lens of imagination-infused faith.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56368147136885,"sku":"9781786226891","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781786226891_7d265a2a-e79b-4022-8d68-95d7123218e6.jpg?v=1786026169"},{"product_id":"9781786227126","title":"Galahad and the Grail","description":"For many, the tales of Arthur and his knights are the stuff of bedtime stories or children's cartoons. But the origin of these tales goes back more than a thousand years, part of a Europe-wide storytelling tradition. In the past century, much of the Christian bedrock of these stories has been stripped away, losing their foundational themes, deeper character motivations, and the potency of the tales themselves. Now, bestselling poet Malcolm Guite re-enchants the legend of King Arthur for a new generation, restoring its original power and mystery in a sweeping four-volume series that blends myth, theology, and lyric mastery. Drawing on a lifetime of poetic craft and spiritual reflection, he offers a rich, immersive journey through Britain’s mythic and moral landscape.In this first volume, Galahad and the Grail, we join the prophesied youth Sir Galahad as he sets out from Camelot to achieve the Holy Grail. This tale of adventure in ballad form plumbs the depths of the human soul, carries readers through the Wasteland, and sets us upon the numinous shores of Faerie in all its mystery and meaning. This is not an epic poem destined to be sequestered in the halls of academia, but a tale to be read by young and old alike, to be read aloud among friends, to be read and cherished for generations to come.Published in a beautiful hardback edition with woodcut illustrations by Stephen Crotts, this is a book to treasure and delight in. Take up the tale with us on March 23, 2026.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56369158160757,"sku":"9781786227126","price":32.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781786227126_137ee26c-3d2d-415f-8355-e536b786f82e.jpg?v=1786026176"},{"product_id":"the-coming-of-arthur","title":"The Coming of Arthur","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this second book of Malcolm Guite's acclaimed \u003cem\u003eMerlin's Isle: An Arthuriad,\u003c\/em\u003e travel back to craggy Tintagel to discover how it all began. 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