Böcker av Joy Mead

Five practical workshops, for groups or individuals, to explore the use of words and poetry in everyday life. The readings and activities in this book aim to lead us to a deeper understanding of how we use language.

Through conversations and connections Joy Mead explores the true meaning of community - beyond the jargon of 'community cohesion' and the 'Big Society'. Includes conversations with Satish Kumar, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Lesley Saunders, Julia Ponsonby, Stephen Raw and others.

A new collection of poems from Joy Mead - 'a book of moments, illuminated moments, those times when joy breaks through, when beauty amazes and goes some way towards healing.' Joy's poems celebrate what it is to be alive and also, perhaps, what it is to contemplate death. '... a poet of great sensitivity, a deeply religious poet, without being a Religious Poet. Her spirituality is grounded in the depths of 'ordinary' life - the extraordinary life.' Ron Ferguson

Poems with a spiritual dimension from Iona Community member Joy Mead. They come from the beauty of the glimpsed moment ... a precious jewel held for a short time amid the pain and sorrow of the world, then let go into the bigger picture ... The beauty is what we remember, what gives the moment its significance.

This collection of incarnational poetry from the author of A Telling Place, The One Loaf and Making Peace in Practice and Poetry explores a spirituality that engages with people, things, and the joys and sorrows of daily life. Where are the altars? In the