•A major new work from our bestselling author – a poetic response to each of the Bible’s 150 Psalms.•Biblical scholar Paula Gooder has been advisor to the project.•Malcolm’s poetic, literary and musical gifts are widely enjoyed throughout the English-speaking world and he is in constant demand as a speaker and performer.•A natural companion to Sounding the Seasons which is in its 9th printing and is widely used in churches. 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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