A series of sonnets for Lent and Easter were published in ‘Who Do You Say I Am?’ in 2024.
These sonnets explore discipleship in today’s world, touching on contemporary themes such as identity, truth telling, violence, abuse, racism, and belonging.
+Adam unpacked the structure of sonnets and also the structure of this sequence of poems as they take us through Holy Week to Easter Day. In this book poetry, prayers, art and scripture meditations come together to create a reflective guide for personal and corporate devotion on the events at the heart of the Christian story from a contemporary, urban perspective. Focusing the death and resurrection of Christ, this is suitable for year-round use as an alternative form of the Stations of the Cross, but also with a special significance for Holy Week and Easter.
Arranged in 14 sections, reflections by Joanne Grenfell and sonnets by Adam Atkinson explore discipleship in today’s world, touching on contemporary themes such as identity, truth telling, violence, abuse, racism, and belonging in relation to being a follower of Jesus. Each is powerfully illustrated with original paintings by artist Ali Mulroy. The prayers are written in the first person as a devotional response to all that has gone before and each opens with a line from a fresh rendering of the Lenten Prose.
The book springs from a series of talks given at St Paul’s Cathedral in Holy Week 2023.
In her review of the book, Rachel Mann writes:
'Joanne Woolway Grenfell, Adam Atkinson, and Ali Mulroy’s theological, literary, and artistic gifts make for a highly valuable study guide, which deserves a wide and engaged readership ...
Adam Atkinson, the Bishop of Bradwell, provides poems and prayers for each meditation ... Sonnets are, by tradition, love poems, and I enjoyed how he takes the form and, after Malcolm Guite, finds words to speak into the horror and hope of crucifixion ...
the compassion, wisdom, and insight of the authors, working in concert, is a genuine pleasure.'
Arranged in 14 sections, reflections by Joanne Grenfell and sonnets by Adam Atkinson explore discipleship in today’s world, touching on contemporary themes such as identity, truth telling, violence, abuse, racism, and belonging in relation to being a follower of Jesus. Each is powerfully illustrated with original paintings by artist Ali Mulroy. The prayers are written in the first person as a devotional response to all that has gone before and each opens with a line from a fresh rendering of the Lenten Prose.
The book springs from a series of talks given at St Paul’s Cathedral in Holy Week 2023.
In her review of the book, Rachel Mann writes:
'Joanne Woolway Grenfell, Adam Atkinson, and Ali Mulroy’s theological, literary, and artistic gifts make for a highly valuable study guide, which deserves a wide and engaged readership ...
Adam Atkinson, the Bishop of Bradwell, provides poems and prayers for each meditation ... Sonnets are, by tradition, love poems, and I enjoyed how he takes the form and, after Malcolm Guite, finds words to speak into the horror and hope of crucifixion ...
the compassion, wisdom, and insight of the authors, working in concert, is a genuine pleasure.'
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Adam Atkinson - Restore.
