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David's Crown
David's Crown: A Poetic Companion to the Psalms | Malcolm Guite
As well as the name of a virus, a corona is a crown, the pearly glow around the sun in certain astronomical conditions and a poetic form where interlinking lines connect a sequence. It is the perfect name therefore for this new collection of 150 poems by the bestselling poet Malcolm Guite, each one written in response to the Bible’s 150 psalms as they appear in William Coverdale’s timeless translation. The Psalms express every human emotion with disarming honesty, as anger and thankfulness alike are directed at God. All of life is here with its moments of beauty and its times of despair and shame. Like the Psalms themselves, the poems do not avoid the cursing and glorying over the downfall of your enemies, but wrestle honestly with them as we do when we come to say them.
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I loved this. Written during 2020, it‘s a collection of 150 poems that are responses to each of the Psalms. I found it comforting and challenging and entirely timely; with its personal responses to Scripture, it so often resonated with my own thoughts and emotions from the past couple years of pandemic and general upheaval. This is one I‘m sure I‘ll go back to again and again in tandem with my reading of the Psalms.

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