This collection of poems explores the changing place of the Church in a multi-faith and often stridently secular society where it can no longer speak with its old authority. Diana Pacitti's poetry envisages a new role of living more truly the presence of Christ.

Diane Pacitti

Dark Angelic Mills

Foreword

Preface

Siting

Genesis: Broade Ford

1 Godspan

2 Out of the Depths

3 Chorus

4 Church

5 Domesday

I Come From . . .

To Any Visitor

St Peter’s Church

Choral Evensong: His Bright Materials

Choral Evensong

Northerner

Clay Genesis

A Bradford Christmas

Here

Birthing Place

A Divided Place?

Women for Peace

Mary / Maryam

St Cuthbert Visits the Mirror Pool

A Prayer to St Hilda

Walking the Cathedral Textiles

Stitching the Long Kneeler

Unwilling Pilgrims

Emily: Heretic or Mystic?*

A Mill Worker’s Bank Holiday

Titus Salt

Saltaire: A Story in Colours

Bradford Pals

For Joe Hardcastle

There But Not There

Invisible Pathways

Hidden Stories

Before Pilate

The Woman with the Spice Jar

Women at the Tomb

Mary of Magdala

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

1 In Bradford

2 The Wilderness

Icons of the Spirit

1 Writing an Icon

2 Icon of the Holy Spirit

Laying Down a Prayer-Mat

Billy Liar

Reflections for the September Equinox

Fellow-Travellers

Voices From the Other Side

Prayer

Centenary: 25 November 1919

Centenary: Icons of Bradford

I Am*

Seeing Christmas

Angels of Bradford

This collection of poems explores the changing place of the Church in a multi-faith and often stridently secular society where it can no longer speak with its old authority. Diana Pacitti’s poetry envisages a new role of living more truly the presence of Christ.

• Contemporary and biblical, the poems bring the sacred and the secular into imaginative conversation. • Strong regional flavour that affirms and celebrates Bradford as a northern spiritual powerhouse.

This collection of poems, created by Bradford Cathedral's Poet in Residence during its centenary year, explores the changing place of the Church in a multi-faith and often stridently secular society where it can no longer speak with its old authority. Diana Pacitti's poetry envisages a new role of living more truly the presence of Christ. She says, 'I am convinced that if he was born today Jesus would choose Bradford, with its collapsed industrial might, large Muslim population and social and economic stresses, rather than a wealthier and more comfortable cathedral city'. It includes poems on the landscape and its reduction to ownership and monetary value, and the local impact of wars, industrialism, and the rise of nationalist politics. It celebrates the great northern spiritual tradition with poems devoted to Hilda and Cuthbert and local figures such as Emily Bronte. Reflecting the Cathedral's rhythm of prayer and its role within the city, poems centred on Christ and the biblical narrative are juxtaposed with others focused on contemporary themes.

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Dark Angelic Mills

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This collection of poems explores the changing place of the Church in a multi-faith and often stridently secular society where it can no longer speak with its old authority. Diana Pacitti’s poetry envisages a new role of living more truly the presence of Christ.

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