Courting the Mystery - by Jeremy Palmer (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

A twelve-month diary through poetry, exploring mortality and meaning and mystery, by the hospital bedside and in the pages of a notebook, Courting the Mystery engages and dances with those answerless questions burning at the heart of our human experience. Paperback, 96 pages.

Review Quotes

'I recognise myself in Jeremy's words, in his images. ...He highlights the exquisite beauty in the suffering, captures the courage to 'be with' someone as they struggle to meet the agony of their pain. He portrays the essence of the child, the adult, the spirit, the courage. It speaks volumes about who he is and who we are as human beings.'

-Jackie Tarabay

Specialist Bereavement Counsellor/Clinical Supervisor/Trainer, Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement

'Through the art of his poetry, Jeremy ministers to us. The mysteries of some of life's threshold experiences are brought to the surface and come more clearly into focus. ...There is a sense of the familiar about his images. They are about life and spirit and I recognise them.'

-Peter Roberts, Music-Thanatologist, co-author of 'The Harp and the Ferryman'

'Through his courage and willingness to become vulnerable, [Jeremy] engages a process of deep reflection on what it means to be human, in face of the challenges of existing at all. In this offering, he companions us into the very expression of human experience, celebrating its existence, life in all its fullness, including its brevity-befriending our mortality, and in doing so, throwing open the portal to a more vibrant, richer living, and beyond that, the possibility of an encounter with the profound.'

-Rev. Thomas A. Rose

Clinical Pastoral Educator, Centre Director, Epworth Community C.P.E. Centre