Word from Wormingford

Author: Ronald Blythe
Publisher: Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
ISBN: 9781853118456
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 260

Book Description
Canterbury Press is proud to have acquired these backlist Ronald Blythe titles, consisting of illustrated collections of the authors regular weekly column on the back page of the Church Times where, with a poets eye, he observes the comings and goings of the rural world he sees from his ancient farmhouse in the South of England. Each volume was critically acclaimed on publication.

Forever Wormingford

Author: Ronald Blythe
Publisher: Canterbury Press
ISBN: 178622027X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 175

Book Description
Long recognised as Britain’s greatest living rural writer, Ronald Blythe draws together literature, poetry, spirituality and memory which all merge to create an exquisite commentary on our times that is at once celebratory and elegiac. In this eleventh and final collection of his beloved 'Word from Wormingford', Ronald Blythe opens us our eyes to the small miracles that happen everywhere in ordinary life. With a poet’s deftness he gives us language with which to speak about the experiences that touch every life, but so often leave us speechless – life’s great joys and its incomprehensible sorrows. His writing awakens us to the colours and scents of the seasons and the weather, lets us listen to the myriad remembered conversations stored in his attic mind, evokes the smell of old books and all the memories they conjure up, and shows us how to be thankful for the inestimable blessing of simple routine.

Under a Broad Sky

Author: Ronald Blythe
Publisher: Canterbury Press
ISBN: 1848254741
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 199

Book Description
With reverence and love, Britains most admired rural writer chronicles daily life in the Stour valley village, finding beauty and significance in its sheer ordinariness as well as in its many literary, artistic and historic associations. The year takes its shape from the seasons of nature and the feasts and festivals of the Christian year. Each informs and illuminates the other in this loving celebration of natures gifts and neighbourly friendship. Literature, poetry, spirituality and memory all merge to create an exquisite series of stories of our times. These delightful essays first appeared in the Word From Wormingford column, a popular back page feature of the Church Times for some 20 years. It was praised as one of the finest journalistic columns by the Guardian in November 2012.

A Year at Bottengoms Farm

Author: Ronald Blythe
Publisher: Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
ISBN: 9781853118333
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 164

Book Description
These exquisite mini essays reflect on the natural landscape, the changing seasons, village life, art, poetry, the stories that ancient churches tell, the Christian year. They refresh ones vision of ones own daily routine and surroundings and can be read over and over again, like poetry.

The View in Winter

Author: Ronald Blythe
Publisher: Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
ISBN: 9781853115929
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 324

Book Description
'The View in Winter' is a timeless and moving study of the perplexities of living to a great age, as related by a wide range of men and women: miners, villagers, doctors, teachers, craftsmen, soldiers, priests, the widowed and long-retired. Their voices are set in the context of what literature, art, religion and medicine over the centuries have said about ageing. The result is an acclaimed and compelling reflection on an inevitable aspect of our human experience.

A Dictionary of Writers and their Works

Author: Christopher Riches
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019251850X
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 1431

Book Description
Over 3,200 entries An essential guide to authors and their works that focuses on the general canon of British literature from the fifteenth century to the present. There is also some coverage of non-fiction such as biographies, memoirs, and science, as well as inclusion of major American and Commonwealth writers. This online-exclusive new edition adds 60,000 new words, including over 50 new entries dealing with authors who have risen to prominence in the last five years, as well as fully updating the entries that currently exist. Each entry provides details of a writer's nationality and birth/death dates, followed by a listing of their titles arranged chronologically by date of publication.

Circling Year

Author: Ronald Blythe
Publisher: Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
ISBN: 9781853114311
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
A renowned observer of rural ways weaves together literature, botany, nature and scripture to open our eyes to the eternal in the everyday.

The Earth Only Endures

Author: Jules Pretty
Publisher: Earthscan
ISBN: 1849772967
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 289

Book Description
'A blend of clear-eyed science and poetic eloquence The Earth Only Endures follows in the tradition of Jared Diamond and E.O. Wilson. Jules Pretty too is hopeful but on the condition that we understand the nature of the self-imposed threats to our future and the rational basis for human survival. To say that this is essential reading is rather like saying that a compass is essential to navigation.' David W Orr author of Design on the Edge 'Jules Pretty?s remarkable new book is both universal and parochial by turn and beautifully written. It is a philosophical inventory of what we have recentl.

Under a Broad Sky

Author: Ronald Blythe
Publisher: Canterbury Press
ISBN: 1848254989
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 199

Book Description
With reverence and love, Britain's most admired rural writer chronicles daily life in a Stour valley village, finding beauty and significance in its sheer ordinariness as well as its many literary, artistic and historic associations.

The East Country

Author: Jules Pretty
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501709356
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 189

Book Description
The East Country is a work of creative nonfiction in which the acclaimed nature writer Jules Pretty integrates memoir, natural history, cultural critique, and spiritual reflection into a single compelling narrative. Pretty frames his book around Aldo Leopold and his classic A Sand County Almanac, bringing Leopold’s ethic—that some could live without nature but most should not—into the twenty-first century. In The East Country, Pretty follows the seasons through seventy-four tales set in a variety of landscapes from valley to salty shore. Pretty convinces us that we should all develop long attachments to the local, observing that the land can change us for the better.