Occasions of Grace

by Roger White

Roger White's new collection brings together a wide selection of poems, portrayals, vignettes and a good dash of White's well-loved humour. It delicately balances a sympathetic portrayal of the strength of the Faith and its adherents with a portrayal of the vagaries of twentieth century life. Truly a portrayal of the new and old world orders.

Roger White, a native of Toronto, Canada, won an enthusiastic international readership and critical acclaim through the publication of his first collection of poems, Another Song, Another Season ( George Ronald, 1979). A second collection, The Witness of Pebbles, appeared in 1981, widening his circle of readers. With his collection of poems in homage to Emily Dickinson, One Bird, One Cage, One Flight, his reputation continued to grow. He is also the author of the novella A Sudden Music and the historical monograph The Shell and the Pearl. This present volume, Occasions of Grace, is the first major collection of Roger White's poetry to appear in the last decade. An associate editor of Hansard, the Canadian parliamentary record, he moved in 1971 to Haifa, Israel, where for almost twenty years he was with the Publishing Department of the Baha'i World Centre. He returned to Canada in 1990.

Genres: Baha I

240 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 1992

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[Esther Bradley-detally · Rating 5 out of 5]

Roger White's books are permanently on my book shelves and revered.