Taking Up the Ten-stringed Harp

by Michael Jennings

"Taking Up the Ten-stringed Harp" is a collection of 101 poems written from an orthodox Catholic perspective. About half of them have appeared in English poetry magazines such as "Acumen"; "The Rialto", "Assent", "Other Poetry", "Assent", "The Interpreter's House", "Obsessed with Pipework" and "Weyfarers". Several have also appeared in "Pulsar Webzine".

The poems range in tone from the humerous to the serious or both. Some are formal in metre, most are in free verse. The book is divided into four secttions. The first is "Mystery" in which the poems approach the ungraspable and the unfathomable from a variety of angles. Next is "Struggle" with poems describing some of the challenges of life. Then there is "Notebook" with poems which comment on modern life and finally, "Delight" where joy is the main theme.

Michael Jennings is a former cartographer and teacher. As a cartographer he spent three years in Zambia. As a teacher in Nottingham, England, he worked for over ten years in one of the larges council estates in Europe. He is married with two grown-up sons. He became a Catholic in 1980 after twenty years of dithering. He has written plays, short stories, ten novels, articles and hundreds of poems.

116 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 9, 2013

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