It’s getting close to the time for my new poetry collection to be released with Wipf & Stock’s Resources imprint. I’ll share the details here when the date arrives along with info on how to purchase it online through W&S or Amazon. In the meantime, I’m excited to announce that I’ll be having a bookContinue reading “Book launch: This Teeming Mess of Glory”
Author Archives: Matthew Pullar
A sneek peek at my new book
It’s only about a month until my new collection of poetry, This Teeming Mess of Glory, comes out with Wipf & Stock (Resource Publications). Although the process from getting it accepted to publication has been remarkably short, this book has more than fifteen years in the making. It comprises several poems from my unpublished collectionContinue reading “A sneek peek at my new book”
My poem “Stanzas for Edith Stein” published at Amethyst Review
Epiphany with St Matthew
26.I suppose it was when that woman anointed Him that things started to turn. We all saw the look on Judas’ face at the expense, though none of us expected where he would take it. Even as He started to tell us plainly what would happen next we hardly believed it, least of all Peter,Continue reading “Epiphany with St Matthew”
Christmas with St Matthew 10
22.Sometimes we relished watching Him put others in their place; other times, we were the ones being corrected. The feast was getting ready and many were called, but who would be wearing the right clothes to join? I can see it now like I couldn’t then. The right clothes were His: the humility of acceptingContinue reading “Christmas with St Matthew 10”
Christmas with St Matthew 9
19.Why did we send away those children, forgetting what He had told us, forgetting how little we ourselves were? Perhaps it was the feeling of largeness, of value, that we felt when He sparred against the Pharisees, the sense that we were part of something new, something great breaking in. And we were. But theContinue reading “Christmas with St Matthew 9”
Christmas with St Matthew 8
16.then we were so slow to understand – afraid even when we forgot bread, as though the last two miracle feasts weren’t enough. Were we really any better than the Pharisees with their demands for a sign? We had all the signs we needed, yet didn’t quite get it. He had come to serve, notContinue reading “Christmas with St Matthew 8”
Christmas with St Matthew 7
14.Something I never understood about him in those days was how he could give when he was empty. Like the time his cousin died, killed by that fox Herod, and he took the news quietly, went to be by himself in his grief, and yet, when the crowds followed and invaded his silence he couldContinue reading “Christmas with St Matthew 7”
Christmas with St Matthew 6
12.And what was this about David’s mighty men? What was he doing comparing us to them when all we were was hungry? And what was that about all of us being his true brothers and sisters? I who until moments ago had been disowned by my own brother. (James caught my eye, it’s true, whenContinue reading “Christmas with St Matthew 6”
Christmas with St Matthew 5
10.And there I was, one of the new twelve, eleven new brothers including my own, James, the brother I could hardly even dare claim. From a family that could scarcely look me in the eye, here I was: restored not only to my own brother, but given another ten. And away we were sent, compelledContinue reading “Christmas with St Matthew 5”
The Consolations of Writing 