In "The Other Mountain" Rowan Williams relives moments of intense trial, when women and men are transformed in spirit, and sometimes in body also. He not only reads the signs as they appear in nature and history: he lives them through language. Imagi...

"I dislike the idea of being a religious poet. I would prefer to be a poet for whom religious things mattered intensely". In the poems collected in this book, Rowan Williams writes of many things. He visits the Holy Land, commemorates the deaths of...