Ann draws many insights into the nature of prayer from her love of birdwatching, and images from the natural world and from scripture permeate her writing. Wit, warmth and economy of expression characterise her style.

Ann Lewin

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Watching the Kingfisher

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From small beginnings as a self-published writer producing booklets in response to demand from people who attended her retreats or quiet days, Ann Lewin has gone on to be on of the most successful writers of prayers and reflective poetry. With the "Inspire" imprint closing in 2009, Canterbury Press welcomes this fine writer and is pleased to announce a new edition of Ann's bestselling book, "Watching for the Kingfisher", named after her most well known poem about prayer. Ann draws many insights into the nature of prayer from her love of birdwatching, and images from the natural world and from scripture permeate her writing. Wit, warmth and economy of expression characterise her style.

Ann Lewin is an accomplished poet who is much in demand as a retreat leader. She was a secondary school teacher (RE and English) for 27 years, and later Welfare Advisor for International Students at the University of Southampton. She has also worked tutoring ordinands at Sarum College. Her other titles are Words by the Way and Growing in Love (MPH).

\["For Christians with a love of nature","Ann Lewin's poems and prayers are filled with beauty","A book that is a balm for the soul"\]

A powerful blend of prayer and poetry, Watching thee Kingfisher by Ann Lewin is a soothing return to nature and a beautiful antidote to life's busyness.

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Originally published in 2004 by Inspire an imprint of Methodist Publishing House.   
A collection of blank-verse where prayer and poem meet and merge, spotlighting God both in the ordinary and the mundane where we might miss Him, and in the big occasions where His presence might be masked by custom and religion; both in the sweet and wonderful where praise is easy, and in the bitter and painful where it comes through gritted teeth, if at all. Ann Lewin finds prayer and bird watching similar exercises in patience, stillness, lack of control over the results and the need to be constantly ready for surprises – hence the title – and her work is much used by prayer groups and retreats as well as for private devotion and enjoyment. This new, enlarged edition of Watching for the Kingfisher is one that can be returned to again and again, each time discovering a new and previously overlooked gem. If you appreciate good poetry and have not encountered Ann Lewin before, this is the ideal place to begin an acquaintance.

Watching For the Kingfisher: Poems and Prayers

Watching for the Kingfisher

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Watching for the Kingfisher

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Ann draws many insights into the nature of prayer from her love of birdwatching, and images from the natural world and from scripture permeate her writing. Wit, warmth and economy of expression characterise her style.

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