Saturday, 28 March 2026

"Safe Metamorphosis!!"

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This book is Otis Mensah's debut collection, which I've just re-read (that link goes back to my original post from first reading) t...

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This book is Jonathan Kinsman's debut poetry pamphlet - this was a re-read (check out the link at the start of this for my original pos...
Friday, 27 March 2026

Jesus the Son of Man

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This book by Kahlil Gibran was an absolute treat. Having re-read his most famous work last night , I became curious about his other stuff a...

the Prophet

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This book is the most famous work by Kahlil Gibran - I've read it for this blog before, hence the shortness of this post: that link goe...

What is Enlightenment?

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This essay by Immanuel Kant, written in 1784 at the height of the Enlightenment, is the most famous answer provided to  Z ö llner's ope...
Wednesday, 25 March 2026

the Monsters and the Critics

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This essay (available for free online from that link) by J.R.R. Tolkien* is arguably the landmark work in scholarship on Beowulf , the most...
Tuesday, 17 March 2026

the Birth of Nothing

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This book is a dystopian novel by Pavel Marek, and was far more intensively full of thought-provoking ideas & discourse than I was prep...
Friday, 6 March 2026

Project Öcalan

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This (available on my Google Drive from that link) is my Masters dissertation on Kurdistan; I decided to give it a re-read given recent eve...
Monday, 2 March 2026

Let Them Eat Chaos

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This book by Kae Tempest is a masterful work of commentary poetry, and I would highly recommend reading it aloud to yourself if you can as ...

Howl, Kaddish & other poems

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This book by Allen Ginsberg is one I've read before on this blog, hence the link going back to the first post about it as I really don...
Friday, 27 February 2026

Poetic Diction

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This book by Owen Barfield* is one I've read before but I didn't do a very nice job at the post last time round so I promise to be...
Thursday, 26 February 2026

the Cross of Christ

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This book is John Stott's magnum opus, diving deep into the titular heart of the Christian faith. It is rigorous but accessible, profou...
Saturday, 21 February 2026

the Vocation of the Scholar

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This book  [available from that link online for free] by Enlightenment-era German philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte* is a rigorous examinat...
Tuesday, 17 February 2026

Imagination Manifesto

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This book is a collaboration between theologian Ted Turnau & artist Ruth Naomi Floyd; it is a call for Christian creatives to plant ...
Monday, 16 February 2026

Seeing Beauty & Saying Beautifully

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This book by John Piper is an exploration of how poetic effort can be utilized in devotion to God; as evangelism, as exhortation, as edifi...
Monday, 9 February 2026

the Vision of God

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This book (available from the Internet Archive from that link for free) by Nicholas of Cusa* is an underrated classic of Christian mysticis...
Tuesday, 3 February 2026

the Lord of the Rings: book five

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This book is the second half of The Return of the King , the final instalment of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings trilogy, which...