My new collection about the much-loved saint Thérèse of Lisieux will be published by the wonderful Paraclete Press this September (2020). I am beyond honoured, and hope the book is well-received and helps many readers get to know Thérèse more, or indeed for the first time.
I will be blogging about the collection more over the next few weeks and months.
Meanwhile here are some endorsements from three fine writers whose work is always worth reading:
A biography-in-verse that brims with beauty, pain, insight, and humility, Thérèse informs as it inspires. In Sarah Law’s honest and perceptive portrayals, the “busy stillness” and “little ways” of this Carmelite nun become a “petal, flaming high in Christ’s kaleidoscope.” This is a poetry pilgrimage you’ll want to take.
–Marjorie Maddox, author of Transplant, Transport, Transubstantiation
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Little souls, little petals, little Carmelite…. The word “little” is intrinsically woven into the life of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, and it appears repeatedly, in all the right places, in this poetic biography of the saint. The poems enthrall by their attention to sensory detail and the underlying strength they evince. Through them we learn how Thérèse’s “… little world blossom[ed] / under her sword’s steel.” A deeply moving and memorable work.
Sofia Starnes, poet, editor and critic
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Thérèse of Lisieux had the soul of a poet: the high quality of Law’s life of Thérèse in poetry inspired by the photos, reminiscences and incidents of the saint penetrates the depths hidden in the seeming triviality of her life and her ‘resolute littleness’; it adds fresh and new insight into her life.
Jennifer Moorcroft, author of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux and her Sisters
Sarah Law 