Word in The Wilderness gives you appropriate poetry for every day from Shrove Tuesday to Easter Day chosen by bestselling poet Malcolm Guite.

With a favourite poem from across the Christian spiritual and English literary traditions, this Lent and Easter resource offers incisive seasonal reflections for every day of that spiritually challenging, uplifting and rewarding season.

A scholar of poetry as well as a renowned poet himself, Malcolm Guite's knowledge is both deep and wide. Word in the Wilderness offers readers a soul-food feast for Lent, with material from classic and contemporary writers including George Herbert, John Donne, T S Eliot, Christina Rossetti, W H Auden, R S Thomas, Gerard Manley Hopkins and Thomas Hardy, as well as a selection of Malcolm Guite's own highly praised work.