THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES. Poetry and Prayer: A Survey of Some Twentieth-Century Studies / David Lonsdale -- Prayer is the Little Implement: Poetic Speech and the Gestures of Prayer in Christian Traditions / Mark S. Burrows -- Poetry at the Threshold of Prayer / Antonio Spadaro SJ -- Poetry as Immanence: How Language Informs Reality / Jay Parini -- Poetry and Prayer: "An Inner Kinship" / Jennifer Reek -- CASE STUDIES: PRE-MODERNITY. Poetic Art and Prayer in Psalm / David Rensberger -- Prayer and Prayerfulness in Dante / John Took -- Prayer, Poetry and Silence: A Musical Correspondence / Magorzata Grzegorzewska -- CASE STUDIES: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. Re-imagining Prayer: Coming Out of Hiding? R.S. Thomas and Tadeusz Róewicz / Jean Ward -- Saturday Prayer: R.S. Thomas and the Search for a Silent God / Richard McLauchlan -- Thomas Merton's Poetry and Prayer / Sarah Law -- W.H. Auden and the Deep Language of Poetic Prayer / Hester Jones -- Denise Levertov: Poetry as a Way to Prayer / Dana Greene.
