Waving from a Distance: Poems written during Lent 2016

by Tim Lenton

Tim writes, "These poems are not carefully selected, with the less effective weeded out to make way for late arrivals. They were written as a Lent project in 2016, one a day, with the aim of catching the moment and looking back and forward" Tim Lenton writes of one Lent in a lifetime of Lents. He writes from a place familiar to us all, “out in the wilderness between yesterday and tomorrow”; the terrain is one of questions (and few answers) within a landscape of longing, love and loss. There is no artifice in these poems; there is no desire to proselytise or preach. There is humour, grace, humility. And the footnotes to the poems are unapologetically human, self-deprecating. I warm to each poem, each page, each day, and it to me, like a hazelnut in the palm of my hand. Claire Everett, Founder and Editor of Skylark

68 pages, Paperback

Published January 10, 2017