{"id":12628,"date":"2023-06-12T19:46:31","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T19:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iarpp.net\/?post_type=article&#038;p=12628"},"modified":"2023-06-12T19:46:53","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T19:46:53","slug":"a-pilgrims-poetry","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/article\/a-pilgrims-poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"A Pilgrim\u2019s Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Book Announcement by <strong>Noel Jeffs<\/strong> (Australia)<\/p>\n<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12630 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Jeffs-coverw-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/>A Pilgrim\u2019s Poetry<\/em>, part of a specifically Christian genre from MoshPit Publishing, offers a series of poetic meditations exploring issues of personal spiritual pilgrimage and our place in this world. As a young Friar, when these disparate sagas were written, Noel Jeffs journeyed to a number of places of inestimable spiritual quality, including the Holy Land in Jerusalem, Dorset in the United Kingdom, and Assisi in Italy, to spend time in reflection and meditation.<\/p>\n<p>Much of the energy in this text is provided by the fusion of the concept of the Father in psychoanalysis and in religion. Christian literature, like love poems in general, is a very difficult genre, and Jeffs\u2019 collection shows passionate awareness of those difficulties and an intense devotion to overcoming them. Moments of beauty, lucidity and exploration are reproduced here in the hope that the reader might make some sense of what can only ever be one\u2019s own deeply personal journey.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Noel Jeffs SSF<\/strong> is an Anglican Friar originally from Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. The author of <em>Maturing in the Religious Life, A Pilgrims Poetry<\/em>, and the impending <em>Balmain Meditations<\/em>, Noel enjoys conversation and silence and writing. He holds a master\u2019s degree in Mental Health and has trained as a psychotherapist.\u00a0He is a LGBTIQ elder and gay activist and is cared for by that community.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12631 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Jeffs2306w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"166\" \/>Brother Noel Jeffs SSF<br \/>\nAlexandria, Australia<br \/>\n<a href=\"m&#97;&#105;&#x6c;&#x74;o&#58;&#110;&#x6f;&#x65;&#x6c;&#46;&#106;&#101;&#x66;&#x66;s&#64;&#104;&#x6f;&#x74;&#x6d;a&#105;&#108;&#x2e;&#x63;om\">Email Noel Jeffs<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/indiemosh.com.au\/author-318\/\">Visit Noel Jeffs Author&#8217;s page<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noel Jeffs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":3,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"issuem_issue":[91],"issuem_issue_categories":[],"issuem_issue_tags":[],"class_list":["post-12628","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","issuem_issue-bookshelf-june-2023"],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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